Host Volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett K.a.23
Publication Details
Type of host:
printed book retaining early binding
Title of volume:
Centuaria epistolarum theologicarum ad Iohannem Schwebelium
Publication:
Zweibrücken: Casparus Wittelius, 1597
Bibliographical reference for printing:
USTC 620945
Binding Information
Binding style:
gilt, centrepiece
Binding detail:
Brown leather over pasteboard. Stamped centrepiece, gold-tooled, with Archbishop Whitgift's arms (defined by BAB as stamp 3). Fillets forming rectangles at edge, several blind, one gilt. Gilt flower stamped in each compartment on spine. Two holes on each board for cloth ties. Written on fore-edge, twice: '23'.
Place of binding:
England
Date range for binding:
1586 x 1604
Hosting Information
Number of manuscripts represented:
2
Number of fragments:
3
Further information
Provenance:
- John Whitgift (1530-1604), archbishop of Canterbury, 1583-1604: his arms as archbishop on binding.
- Richard Bancroft (1544-1610), archbishop of Canterbury, 1604-1610: this is inferred from the usual line of descent from Whitgift to Harsnett.
- Samuel Harsnett (1561-1631), archbishop of York, 1629-31.
Date published:
Thursday, November 24, 2016 - 12:03
Date last updated:
Thursday, November 24, 2016 - 12:20
