Host Volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.b.34
Publication Details
Type of host:
printed book retaining early binding
Title of volume:
Opuscula theologica
Publication:
Lyon: Horatius Cordon, 1600
Binding Information
Binding style:
plain calf
Binding detail:
Plain leather on pasteboard. Sewn on three split alum-tawed thongs; five raised ‘bands’ at the spine.
Number ’26’ painted low on the fore-edge. Price ‘7s’ written at top right of second front flyleaf, part of a bifolium with the first flyleaf and so perhaps added with binding.
Date range for binding:
1600--?1610
Hosting Information
Number of manuscripts represented:
2
Number of fragments:
3
Further information
Provenance:
- ?Richard Bancroft (1544-1610), archbishop of Canterbury, 1604-10: the presence of fragment iii, which appears to be from Babel MS 18, suggests this provenance.
- Samuel Harsnett (1561 – 1631), archbishop of York, 1629 – 31.
