Host Volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.4
Publication Details
Type of host:
printed book retaining early binding
Title of volume:
In Exodum, Qui secundus est liber Moisis
Publication:
Geneva: Iohannes Crispinus, 1560
Binding Information
Binding style:
blind-stamped, centrepiece
Binding detail:
Plain brown leather, rebacked. Blind-stamped centrepiece ornament (a popular design, like, but not the same as, Pearson, Oxford, centrepiece xiv). Repair to the back cover shows the location of a former chain-staple, towards the top of the fore-edge.
Place of binding:
?England
Date range for binding:
?s. xvi2 (post-1560)
Hosting Information
Number of manuscripts represented:
1
Number of fragments:
1
Further information
Provenance:
- an institutional library?: note the evidence of there having been a chain-staple.
- Samuel Harsnett (1561–1631), archbishop of York, 1629–31.
Date published:
Monday, June 22, 2015 - 13:30
Date last updated:
Friday, September 2, 2016 - 06:38
