Host Volume

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.15

Publication Details

Type of host: 
printed book retaining early binding
Title of volume: 

Acta et scripta theologorum wirtembergensium

Publication: 

Wittenburg: officina haeredum Iohannis Cratonis, 1584

Binding Information

Binding style: 
centrepiece, 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. Remains of green cord tie in situ in upper station on front board; stubs elsewhere. The same style of binding used on Harsnett, H.f.29.

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: 
1 plus one blank, but with crease showing it was cut from the same manuscript

Further information

Provenance: 
  • Samuel Harsnett (1561 – 1631), archbishop of York, 1629 – 31.