Host Volume

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.c.1

Publication Details

Type of host: 
printed book retaining early binding
Author of volume: 
Iohannes Scapula
Title of volume: 

Lexicon Graecolatinum novum

Publication: 

Basel: Ex offic. Hervagiana, 1580

Binding Information

Binding style: 
blind-stamped, centrepiece
Binding detail: 

White leather over pasteboard; centrepiece in blind.

Date range for binding: 
1580 x 1631

Hosting Information

Number of manuscripts represented: 
2
Number of fragments: 
2 (+ 1 presently irretrievable as stuck under back pastedown)

Further information

Provenance: 
  • John Field: ‘I. Feildus’ ‘Cantab. Aule Pembroch.’ (top right of title-page, preceded by his motto at top left: ‘Non mihi sed Christo’); elected a fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, in 1593 (A. Hegarty, Biographical Register of St John€™s College, Oxford, 1555 – 1660, OHS n.s. 43 (2011), 273). It is not clear whether he is responsible also for the two Greek clauses written at middle right of the title-page.
  • Samuel Harsnett (1561 – 1631), archbishop of York, 1629 – 31.