Host Volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.g.32
Publication Details
Type of host:
printed book retaining early binding
Title of volume:
Commentarii linguae graecae
Publication:
Basel: Nicolaus Episcopius (iunior), 1556
Binding Information
Binding style:
blind-stamped, centrepiece
Binding detail:
Dark brown calf over pasteboards, fillet panel with corner fleurons and centrepiece in blind, now rather rubbed. Blind fillets to the edges. Holes at fore-edge for ties. Rebacked and repaired extensively (s. xx).
Hosting Information
Number of manuscripts represented:
1
Number of fragments:
2
Further information
Provenance:
- John Field (‘Johannes Feldus pertinet, 10s.’, in neat hand across top of title-page, also the usual cursive signature on the same page); 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).
- Pembroke College, Cambridge (‘Cantab. Aulae Pemb.’ on title-page, appended after Field’s cursive signature).
- And below a motto: €˜Omne nimium vertitur in vitium€™.
- Samuel Harsnett (1561 – 1631), archbishop of York, 1629 – 31.
