Host Volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.a.57
Publication Details
Type of host:
printed book retaining early binding
Title of volume:
Sphaera civitatis
Publication:
Oxford: Joseph Barnes, 1588
Binding Information
Binding style:
blind-stamped, centrepiece
Binding detail:
Brown leather over pasteboards, rebacked with replacement endleaves (1970). The centrepiece is of a popular design - this particular variant is decidedly not those being used in Oxford as recorded by Ker and Pearson, giving them the numbers xv and xvi: note that the pattern of four dots at top and bottom in the Oxford versions are replaced by a loop.
Place of binding:
England
Date range for binding:
s. xvi ex / s. xvi in
Hosting Information
Number of manuscripts represented:
?1
Number of fragments:
2 (one at rear blank, perhaps from same manuscript, judging from plummet ruling)
Further information
Provenance:
- Samuel Harsnett (1561–1631), archbishop of York, 1629–31.
Date published:
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 - 07:30
Date last updated:
Sunday, December 6, 2015 - 12:09
