Host Volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett K.a.14
Publication Details
Type of host:
printed book retaining early binding
Title of volume:
De praestigiis daemonum
Publication:
Basel: 'ex officina Oporiniana', 1568
Binding Information
Binding style:
blind-stamped, centrepiece
Binding detail:
Dark brown leather over pasteboards, centrepiece (Pearson, ‘Cambridge’, C2), double fillets at edge of board. Sewn on five thongs. Stubs of cloth ties. Title written horizontally on fore-edge.
Place of binding:
Cambridge
Date range for binding:
s. xvi2 (post 1568)
Hosting Information
Number of manuscripts represented:
1
Number of fragments:
1
Further information
Provenance:
- Samuel Harsnett (1561 – 1631), archbishop of York, 1629 – 31.
