Host Volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.e.45
Publication Details
Type of host:
printed book retaining early binding
Title of volume:
In Ezechielem prophetam commentaria
Publication:
Antwerp: Petrus Bellerus, 1582
Binding Information
Binding style:
blind-stamped, centrepiece
Binding detail:
The centrepiece, though of a common design, appears to be identifiable as one used in the bindery owned by Thomas Thomas of Cambridge: J. Morris, ‘Thomas Thomas, printer to the University of Cambridge 1583-8. Part II’, TCBS, iv (1968), pp. 339-62 at pl. xxviii (centrepiece 6). It is placed within a frame of multiple fillets at the very edges of the boards. Title written horizontally on fore-edge, below that a number ‘8’.
Place of binding:
Cambridge
Date range for binding:
1582-88
Hosting Information
Number of manuscripts represented:
1
Number of fragments:
2
Further information
Provenance:
- Tho: Lovell’: his name written at top of first front flyleaf, with notes on following flyleaf (with the ?date ‘1597’) and at final verso of back flyleaf.
- Possibly the Thomas Lovell who matriculated at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, in Lent Term, 1585. On him (and alternatives), see Venn, AC, iii, p. 108.
- Samuel Harsnett (1561-1631), archbishop of York, 1629-31.
