Host Volume

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.a.57

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

John Case

Title of volume

Sphaera civitatis

Publication

Oxford: Joseph Barnes, 1588

Binding Information
Binding style
blind-stamped, centrepiece
Binding detail

Brown leather over pasteboards, rebacked with replacement endleaves (1970). The centrepiece is of a popular design - this particular variant is decidedly not those being used in Oxford as recorded by Ker and Pearson, giving them the numbers xv and xvi: note that the pattern of four dots at top and bottom in the Oxford versions are replaced by a loop.

Place of binding

England

Date range for binding

s. xvi ex / s. xvi in

Hosting Information
Number of fragments

2 (one at rear blank, perhaps from same manuscript, judging from plummet ruling)

Number of manuscripts represented

?1

Further Information
Provenance
  • Samuel Harsnett (1561–1631), archbishop of York, 1629–31.
Author: James Willoughby
Colchester Harsnett H.a.57 upper board
List of Fragments
Colchester Harsnett H.a.57 i
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.a.57 i