Host Volume

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.e.49

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

Jerome

Title of volume

Vitas patrum

Publication

Lyon: Iacobus Huguetan, 1515

Binding Information
Binding style
blind-stamped, roll
Binding detail

Brown calf over bevelled boards, rebacked. Cambridge binding by Garret Godfrey of an Intersecting rectangular outer roll frame extending to the edges, using griffin, wyvern, and lion (Oldham roll AN. f (1)), with a quatrefoil diaper roll pattern used twice in the inner panel (Oldham roll DI. a (1)). Catch-plates in situ on the back board for fore-edge clasps, now missing.

Place of binding

Cambridge

Date range for binding

1515 x 1530

Hosting Information
Number of fragments

2

Number of manuscripts represented

1

Further Information
Provenance

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

Author: James Willoughby