Host Volume

Canterbury: Cathedral, W/E-6-6

Publication Details
Type of host
printed book retaining early binding
Author of volume

Saxo Grammaticus

Title of volume

Danica Historia

Bibliographical reference for printing

USTC 626686; Adams S532

Publication

Frankfurt: Andreas Wechel, 1576

Binding Information
Binding style
blind-stamped, centrepiece
Binding detail

Ker centrepiece ix, placed within three concentric rectangles of three-lined fillets.

Place of binding

Oxford

Date range for binding

1576x1602

Hosting Information
Number of fragments

2

Number of manuscripts represented

1

Further Information
Provenance

Fol. ii verso, near top right: 'js' (underlined). ?Same hand writes 'x' (underlined) at verso of final back flyleaf.

Top right of title-page: 'Pretium -- 15 s | W. S. 1646', i.e. William Somner (1598-1669). There is no evidence either for where he purchased or how it reached Canterbury from Oxford. It presumably entered the Cathedral Library on his death with the purchase of his library from his widow [N. Ramsay, 'The Cathedral archives and library', in P. Collinson & others (eds), A History of Canterbury Cathedral (Oxford, 1995), pp. 341--407 at p. 383].

Bibliography for volume

Adams S532; POxBo, sub 1681.6.

Author: David Rundle
Canterbury: Cathedral, W/e-6-6, upper board
List of Fragments
Canterbury: Cathedral, W/E-6-6 ii
Canterbury: Cathedral, W/E-6-6, front pastedown
Canterbury: Cathedral, W/E-6-6 i