Host Volume

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.a.37

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

Theodore Beza

Title of volume

Sermons sur les trois premiers chapitres du Cantique des Cantique, de Salomon

Publication

[Geneva]: Jean le Preux, 1586

Binding Information
Binding style
gilt, centrepiece
Binding detail

Brown leather over pasteboard. Stamped centrepiece, gold-tooled, with Archbishop Whitgift's arms (defined by BAB as stamp 3). Fillets forming rectangles at edge, several blind, one gilt. Two holes on each board for cloth ties. Written on fore-edge: '47'.

Place of binding

England

Date range for binding

1586 x 1604

Hosting Information
Number of fragments

2 (that at back blank)

Number of manuscripts represented

1

Further Information
Provenance
  • John Whitgift (1530-1604), archbishop of Canterbury, 1583-1604: his arms as archbishop on binding.
  • Richard Bancroft (1544-1610), archbishop of Canterbury, 1604-1610: this is inferred from the usual line of descent from Whitgift to Harsnett.
  • Samuel Harsnett (1561-1631), archbishop of York, 1629-31.
Author: James Willoughby
Colchester Harsnett H.a.37
List of Fragments
Colchester Harsnett H.a.37 i
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.a.37 i