Host Volume

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

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

Hector Pintus Lusitanus

Title of volume

In Ezechielem prophetam commentaria

Publication

Antwerp: Petrus Bellerus, 1582

Binding Information
Binding style
blind-stamped, centrepiece
Binding detail

The centrepiece, though of a common design, appears to be identifiable as one used in the bindery owned by Thomas Thomas of Cambridge: J. Morris, 'Thomas Thomas, printer to the University of Cambridge 1583-8. Part II', TCBS, iv (1968), pp. 339-62 at pl. xxviii (centrepiece 6). It is placed within a frame of multiple fillets at the very edges of the boards. Title written horizontally on fore-edge, below that a number '8'.

Place of binding

Cambridge

Date range for binding

1582-88

Hosting Information
Number of fragments

2

Number of manuscripts represented

1

Further Information
Provenance
  • 'Tho: Lovell': his name written at top of first front flyleaf, with notes on following flyleaf (with the ?date '1597') and at final verso of back flyleaf. Possibly the Thomas Lovell who matriculated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, in Lent Term, 1585. On him (and alternatives), see Venn, AC, iii, p. 108.
  • Samuel Harsnett (1561-1631), archbishop of York, 1629-31.
Author: David Rundle_
Colchester Harsnett H.e.45 upper board
List of Fragments
Colchester Harsnett H.e.45 ii
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.e.45 ii
Colchester Harsnett H.e.45 i
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.e.45 i