Host Volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett K.a.15
Publication Details
Type of host:
printed book retaining early binding
Title of volume:
In sacram Beati Ioannis Apostoli, & Euangelistae Apocalypsin Commentarij.
Publication:
Antwerp: Pierre Bellère ('apud Petrum Bellerum, sub scuto Burgundiae'), 1593
Bibliographical reference for printing:
USTC 406936
Binding Information
Binding style:
gilt, centrepiece
Binding detail:
Dark leather over pasteboards with Whitgift's coat-arms gold-tooled at centre (BAB stamp 3), and with three fillets at edge, the middle of them gilded. Bound on five bands, a gilded flower ornament in each spine compartment. Long pieces of green cloth ties in situ.
Date range for binding:
1593 x 1604
Hosting Information
Number of manuscripts represented:
1
Number of fragments:
1
Further information
Provenance:
- John Whitgift (1530-1604), archbishop of Canterbury, 1583-1604.
- Richard Bancroft (1544-1610), archbishop of Canterbury, 1604-10.
- Samuel Harsnett (1561–1631), archbishop of York, 1629–31.
Date published:
Wednesday, August 10, 2016 - 14:43
Date last updated:
Thursday, November 24, 2016 - 11:01
