Host Volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.8
Publication Details
Type of host:
printed book retaining early binding
Title of volume:
Plotini Diuini illius e Platonica familia Philosophi
Publication:
Basel: Thomas Guerinus, 1559
Binding Information
Binding style:
blind-stamped, rolls and ornaments
Binding detail:
Blind-stamped brown leather on front and back boards, entirely replaced at the spine. Three-line blind fillets to the edges, with a panel made from Gibson roll XVI (Oldham HM.h(3)), enclosing diaper decoration in small size made of three-line blind fillets. Fleuron cornerpieces to the panel-frame. The roll was, according to Pearson, Oxford, in use in that university town between c. 1555 and c. 1565.
Place of binding:
?Oxford
Date range for binding:
1559 x 1565
Hosting Information
Number of manuscripts represented:
1
Number of fragments:
2
Further information
Provenance:
- Samuel Harsnett (1561 – 1631), archbishop of York, 1629 – 31.