Host Volume

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.8

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

Plotinus

Title of volume

Plotini Diuini illius e Platonica familia Philosophi

Publication

Basel: Thomas Guerinus, 1559

Binding Information
Binding style
blind-stamped, rolls and ornaments
Binding detail

Blind-stamped brown leather on front and back boards, entirely replaced at the spine. Three-line blind fillets to the edges, with a panel made from Gibson roll XVI (Oldham HM.h(3)), enclosing diaper decoration in small size made of three-line blind fillets. Fleuron cornerpieces to the panel-frame. The roll was, according to Pearson, Oxford, in use in that university town between c. 1555 and c. 1565.

Place of binding

?Oxford

Date range for binding

1559 x 1565

Hosting Information
Number of fragments

2

Number of manuscripts represented

1

Further Information
Provenance

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

Author: James Willoughby
List of Fragments
Colchester Harsnett H.f.8 ii
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.8 ii
Colchester Harsnett H.f.8 i
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.8 i