Host Volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.15
Publication Details
Type of host:
printed book retaining early binding
Title of volume:
Acta et scripta theologorum wirtembergensium
Publication:
Wittenburg: officina haeredum Iohannis Cratonis, 1584
Binding Information
Binding style:
centrepiece, gilt
Binding detail:
Brown leather on pasteboard. Stamped arabesque centrepiece, gilded (design close to but definitely not identical with Pearson, ‘Cambridge’, C14). Three-line blind fillets to the edges. Remains of green cord tie in situ in upper station on front board; stubs elsewhere. The same style of binding used on Harsnett, H.f.29.
Place of binding:
?London
Date range for binding:
s. xvi ex or s. xvii in
Hosting Information
Number of manuscripts represented:
1
Number of fragments:
1 plus one blank, but with crease showing it was cut from the same manuscript
Further information
Provenance:
- Samuel Harsnett (1561 – 1631), archbishop of York, 1629 – 31.
