Host Volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.e.45
Publication Details
Type of host:
printed book retaining early binding
Title of volume:
In Ezechielem prophetam commentaria
Publication:
Antwerp: Petrus Bellerus, 1582
Binding Information
Binding style:
blind-stamped, centrepiece
Binding detail:
The centrepiece, though of a common design, appears to be identifiable as one used in the bindery owned by Thomas Thomas of Cambridge: J. Morris, 'Thomas Thomas, printer to the University of Cambridge 1583-8. Part II', TCBS, iv (1968), pp. 339-62 at pl. xxviii (centrepiece 6). It is placed within a frame of multiple fillets at the very edges of the boards. Title written horizontally on fore-edge, below that a number '8'.
Place of binding:
Cambridge
Date range for binding:
1582-88
Hosting Information
Number of manuscripts represented:
1
Number of fragments:
2
Further information
Provenance:
- 'Tho: Lovell': his name written at top of first front flyleaf, with notes on following flyleaf (with the ?date '1597') and at final verso of back flyleaf. Possibly the Thomas Lovell who matriculated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, in Lent Term, 1585. On him (and alternatives), see Venn, AC, iii, p. 108.
- Samuel Harsnett (1561-1631), archbishop of York, 1629-31.
Date published:
Wednesday, August 12, 2015 - 13:16
Date last updated:
Sunday, December 6, 2015 - 12:04