Host Volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.29
Publication Details
Type of host:
printed book retaining early binding
Title of volume:
Solida refutatio compilationis cinglianae
Publication:
Tübingen: Georgius Gruppenbachius, 1584
Binding Information
Binding style:
gilt
Binding detail:
Brown leather on pasteboard. Stamped arabesque centrepiece, gilded (design close to but definitely not identical with Pearson, ‘Cambridge’, C14). Three-line blind fillets to the edges. On seven thongs, rebacked. Remnant of green cord tie in situ in lower station on back board; stubs of two ties at upper board. Same style of binding used on Harsnett, H.f.29. At very top of fore-edge, title written horizontally, preceded by ’14. D. 2′.
Place of binding:
?London
Date range for binding:
s. xvi ex or s. xvii in
Hosting Information
Number of manuscripts represented:
1
Number of fragments:
2 (both at front; none at back)
Further information
Provenance:
- Samuel Harsnett (1561 – 1631), archbishop of York, 1629 – 31.
