Host Volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.g.17
Publication Details
Type of host:
printed book retaining early binding
Title of volume:
In novum testamentum annotationes
Publication:
Basel: Froben, 1540
Binding Information
Binding style:
blind-stamped, roll
Binding detail:
Brown leather over bevelled wooden boards, blind-tooled panel made of doubled roll, with central lozenge from same roll (Oldham Roll FP. b (2) 666). Outer fillet frame going to edges, crossing at corners. Sewn on four thongs. Rebacked. Upper fore-edge clasp of leather and brass still in place; lower one entirely lost.
Date range for binding:
1540–42
Hosting Information
Number of manuscripts represented:
1
Number of fragments:
2
Further information
Provenance:
Samuel Harsnett (1561–1631), archbishop of York, 1629–31.
Date published:
Wednesday, August 12, 2015 - 13:55
Date last updated:
Friday, September 23, 2016 - 07:49
