Host Volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.c.1
Publication Details
Type of host:
printed book retaining early binding
Title of volume:
Lexicon Graecolatinum novum
Publication:
Basel: Ex offic. Hervagiana, 1580
Binding Information
Binding style:
blind-stamped, centrepiece
Binding detail:
White leather over pasteboard; centrepiece in blind.
Date range for binding:
1580 x 1631
Hosting Information
Number of manuscripts represented:
2
Number of fragments:
2 (+ 1 presently irretrievable as stuck under back pastedown)
Further information
Provenance:
- John Field: ‘I. Feildus’ ‘Cantab. Aule Pembroch.’ (top right of title-page, preceded by his motto at top left: ‘Non mihi sed Christo’); 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 not clear whether he is responsible also for the two Greek clauses written at middle right of the title-page.
- Samuel Harsnett (1561 – 1631), archbishop of York, 1629 – 31.
