Host Volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.e.22
Publication Details
Type of host:
printed book retaining early binding
Publication:
Paris: Poncet le Preux, [1511]
Binding Information
Binding style:
gilt
Binding detail:
Gold-tooled fillet intersecting at edges; Whitgift arms as centrepiece; remains of ties of green waxed cord on both stations, back board.
Date range for binding:
1583 x 1604
Hosting Information
Number of manuscripts represented:
2
Further information
Provenance:
- John Foxe (1516 – 1587), martyrologist.
- John Whitgift (1530 – 1604), archbishop of Canterbury, 1583 – 1604.
- Richard Bancroft (1544 – 1610), archbishop of Canterbury, 1604-10: ownership inferred from the descent of Whitgift’s books to him and the presence of the tab, part of Babel MS 18.
- Samuel Harsnett (1561 – 1631), archbishop of York, 1629 – 31.
