Host Volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.a.26
Publication Details
Type of host:
printed book retaining early binding
Title of volume:
Tractatus de potestate summi pontificis
Publication:
Cologne: Bernardus Gualtherus ('Sumptibus Bernardi Gualtheri'), 1611
Binding Information
Binding style:
plain calf
Binding detail:
brown calf over pasteboards (evidence at lower board of printed waste used in the pulp); rectangles of triple blind fillets at very edge of boards; sewn on four thongs.
At front, a pastedown and flyleaf from a printed book: an edition of Gaius Vettius Aquilinus Juvencus [De historia evangelica, Book IV].
Number '3' written on fore-edge.
Place of binding:
England
Date range for binding:
1612 x 1631
Hosting Information
Number of manuscripts represented:
1
Number of fragments:
1 (of two folios)
Further information
Provenance:
- Samuel Harsnett (1561-1631), archbishop of York, 1629-31.
Date published:
Wednesday, August 12, 2015 - 15:34
Date last updated:
Sunday, December 6, 2015 - 15:05
