Host Volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.c.1
Publication Details
Type of host:
printed book retaining early binding
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.
Date published:
Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 20:48
Date last updated:
Sunday, August 7, 2016 - 09:56
