Host Volume

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett, K.d.23

Publication Details

Type of host: 
printed book retaining early binding
Author of volume: 
Julius Caesar Scaliger
Title of volume: 

De subtilitate

Publication: 

Frankfurt: Claudius Marnius et Ioannes Aubrius, 1592

Bibliographical reference for printing: 
USTC 668102

Binding Information

Binding style: 
plain calf
Binding detail: 

brown calf over exposed pasteboards; rectangles of triple blind fillets at very edge of boards; sewn on four thongs.

Place of binding: 
England
Date range for binding: 
s. xvii in?

Hosting Information

Number of manuscripts represented: 
1
Number of fragments: 
2

Further information

Provenance: 
  • Samuel Harsnett (1561-1631), archbishop of York, 1629-31.
Date last updated: 
Sunday, December 6, 2015 - 10:42