Host Volume

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.b.34

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

Franciscus Suarez

Title of volume

Opuscula theologica

Publication

Lyon: Horatius Cordon, 1600

Binding Information
Binding style
plain calf
Binding detail

Plain leather on pasteboard. Sewn on three split alum-tawed thongs; five raised 'bands' at the spine.

Number '26' painted low on the fore-edge. Price '7s' written at top right of second front flyleaf, part of a bifolium with the first flyleaf and so perhaps added with binding.

Date range for binding

1600--?1610

Hosting Information
Number of fragments

3

Number of manuscripts represented

2

Further Information
Provenance
  • ?Richard Bancroft (1544-1610), archbishop of Canterbury, 1604-10: the presence of fragment iii, which appears to be from Babel MS 18, suggests this provenance.
  • Samuel Harsnett (1561–1631), archbishop of York, 1629–31.
Author: James Willoughby
Colchester Harsnett H.b.34 upper board
List of Fragments
Colchester Harsnett H.b.34 iii
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.b.34 iii
Colchester Harsnett H.b.34 ii
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.b.34 ii
Colchester Harsnett H.b.34 iColchester Harsnett H.b.34 i
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.b.34 i