Host Volume

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.d.45

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

Iohannes Drusius

Title of volume

Historia Ruth; [and] Esthera

Publication

Franeker; Leiden: Aegidius Radaeus (1); Iohannes Paetsius (2), 1586 (1); 1586 (2)

Binding Information
Binding style
blind-stamped, centrepiece
Binding detail

Brown calf over pasteboard; blind intersecting fillets at edges, large centrepiece; remains of green cord ties in four stations.

Place of binding

?London

Date range for binding

s. xvi ex / s. xvii in (post-1586)

Hosting Information
Number of manuscripts represented

1

Further Information
Provenance

Samuel Harsnett (1561–1631), archbishop of York, 1629–31.

Author: James Willoughby
Colchester Harsnett H.d.45 upper board
List of Fragments
Colchester Harsnett H.d.45 i recto
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.d.45 i
Colchester Harsnett H.d.45 i verso
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.d.45 i
Colchester Harsnett H.d.45 ii verso
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.d.45 ii
Colchester Harsnett H.d.45 iii verso
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.d.45 iii