Host Volume

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.a.26

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

Robert Bellarmine

Title of volume

Tractatus de potestate summi pontificis

Publication

Cologne: Bernardus Gualtherus ('Sumptibus Bernardi Gualtheri'), 1611

Binding Information
Binding style
plain calf
Binding detail

brown calf over pasteboards (evidence at lower board of printed waste used in the pulp); rectangles of triple blind fillets at very edge of boards; sewn on four thongs.

At front, a pastedown and flyleaf from a printed book: an edition of Gaius Vettius Aquilinus Juvencus [De historia evangelica, Book IV].

Number '3' written on fore-edge.

Place of binding

England

Date range for binding

1612 x 1631

Hosting Information
Number of fragments

1 (of two folios)

Number of manuscripts represented

1

Further Information
Provenance
  • Samuel Harsnett (1561-1631), archbishop of York, 1629-31.
Author: David Rundle_
Colchester Harsnett H.a.26 upper board
List of Fragments
Colchester Harsnett H.a.26 i
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.a.26 i