Host Volume

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.g.17

Publication Details

Type of host: 
printed book retaining early binding
Author of volume: 
Erasmus
Title of volume: 

In novum testamentum annotationes

Publication: 

Basel: Froben, 1540

Binding Information

Binding style: 
blind-stamped, roll
Binding detail: 

Brown leather over bevelled wooden boards, blind-tooled panel made of doubled roll, with central lozenge from same roll (Oldham Roll FP. b (2) 666). Outer fillet frame going to edges, crossing at corners. Sewn on four thongs. Rebacked. Upper fore-edge clasp of leather and brass still in place; lower one entirely lost.

Date range for binding: 
1540–42

Hosting Information

Number of manuscripts represented: 
1
Number of fragments: 
2

Further information

Provenance: 

Samuel Harsnett (1561–1631), archbishop of York, 1629–31.

Date last updated: 
Friday, September 23, 2016 - 07:49