Host Volume

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.c.11

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

Seneca

Title of volume

Opera

Publication

Basel: In officina Frobeniana, 1529

Binding Information
Binding style
blind-stamped, panel
Binding detail

Rebacked (1970) on four thongs. Panel formed of four intersecting rolls (Oldham, Blind-Stamped, 520), filled with quincunx of Tudor rose ornament (Oldham, Blind-Stamped, 1039). This combination not recorded by Oldham but the ornament was used in London in the mid-1520s (sub Oldham, Blind-Stamped, FL.a.4). Remains of two fore-edge clasps; catch-plates still in situ.

Place of binding

London

Date range for binding

c. 1530

Hosting Information
Number of fragments

1

Number of manuscripts represented

1

Further Information
Provenance
  • 'Tho: Leuers[?]'. Possibly the Thomas Lever who was Fellow of St John's, Cambridge from 1543 and its Master 1551-53, a Marian fugitive who was later Archdeacon of Coventry, 1560-77 (Venn, AC, 3:78). Perhaps responsible for the motto in a humanist cursive book-hand at middle right of first original flyleaf: 'Sors mea mortalis non est mortale quod optas' (ie Ovid, Metamorphoses, II, 55).
  • John Field: 'I. Feildus' 'Cantab. Aule Pembroch.' (across top of title-page and three times more); elected a fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, in 1593 (A. Hegarty, Biographical Register of St John’s College
Author: James Willoughby
Colchester Harsnett H.c.11 upper board
List of Fragments
Colchester Harsnett H.c.11 i
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.c.11 i