Host Volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.c.11
Publication Details
Type of host:
printed book retaining early binding
Title of volume:
Opera
Publication:
Basel: In officina Frobeniana, 1529
Binding Information
Binding style:
blind-stamped, panel
Binding detail:
Rebacked (1970) on four thongs. Panel formed of four intersecting rolls (Oldham, Blind-Stamped, 520), filled with quincunx of Tudor rose ornament (Oldham, Blind-Stamped, 1039). This combination not recorded by Oldham but the ornament was used in London in the mid-1520s (sub Oldham, Blind-Stamped, FL.a.4). Remains of two fore-edge clasps; catch-plates still in situ.
Place of binding:
London
Date range for binding:
c. 1530
Hosting Information
Number of manuscripts represented:
1
Number of fragments:
1
Further information
Provenance:
- Tho: Leuers[?]’. Possibly the Thomas Lever who was Fellow of St John’s, Cambridge from 1543 and its Master 1551-53, a Marian fugitive who was later Archdeacon of Coventry, 1560-77 (Venn, AC, 3:78). Perhaps responsible for the motto in a humanist cursive book-hand at middle right of first original flyleaf: ‘Sors mea mortalis non est mortale quod optas’ (ie Ovid, Metamorphoses, II, 55).#
- John Field: ‘I. Feildus’ ‘Cantab. Aule Pembroch.’ (across top of title-page and three times more); elected a fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, in 1593 (A. Hegarty, Biographical Register of St John€™s College, Oxford, 1555 – 1660, OHS n.s. 43 (2011), 273). It is perhaps Field who adds the price ’10 s’ at top right of title-page.
- Samuel Harsnett (1561 – 1631), archbishop of York, 1629 – 31.
