Host Volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett I.a.20
Publication Details
Type of host:
printed book retaining early binding
Title of volume:
In Ecclesiasten Salomonis Annotationes...
Publication:
Mainz: Franz Behem ('apud Franciscum Behem'), 1556
Bibliographical reference for printing:
USTC 665569
Binding Information
Binding style:
blind-stamped, centrepiece
Binding detail:
The dark leather over the pasteboards is rather worn, but the centrepiece is identifiable as a variant of Pearson, Oxford, xix but has no background lines so is definably not that version used in Oxford or in Cambridge. Evidence of green cloth ties. Title painted on fore-edge: 'Ferus in eccles'.
Place of binding:
?London
Date range for binding:
s. xvi 2
Hosting Information
Number of manuscripts represented:
2
Number of fragments:
2 (+ 2, as pastedowns, from a printed Book of Common Prayer)
Further information
Provenance:
- 'Knight': name written twice on the pasteboard of the lower board.
- Richard Bancroft (1544-1610), archbishop of Canterbury, 1604-10: based on the presence of a tab, presumably from Babel MS 18.
- Samuel Harsnett (1561–1631), archbishop of York, 1629–31.
Date published:
Wednesday, August 10, 2016 - 13:59
Date last updated:
Friday, September 23, 2016 - 08:05
