Host Volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett K.a.9
Publication Details
Type of host:
printed book retaining early binding
Publication:
Paris: Iehan Petit, 1530
Binding Information
Binding style:
blind-stamped, roll
Binding detail:
Brown leather over wooden boards, roll (Pearson, Oxford, XX(1)) forming a rectangle on both boards; fillets forming small triangles in line with thongs. Sewn on four thongs, rebacked. Stubs of two leather ties. Title and number ’26’ written horizontally on fore-edge.
Place of binding:
Oxford
Date range for binding:
1550s
Hosting Information
Number of manuscripts represented:
1 (2 fragments)
Further information
Provenance:
- Webster: ‘webstar’ written on verso of front paper flyleaf; perhaps this person who wrote ‘precium iis iiijd 5 Junij 1549’ at top of title page.
- Wight: ‘whight’ written at top of back pastedown; perhaps this person who adds to the bottom of the title page the motto ‘Nihil frustra’
- Samuel Harsnett
