Host Volume

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.15

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

Acta et scripta theologorum wirtembergensium

Publication

Wittenburg: officina haeredum Iohannis Cratonis, 1584

Binding Information
Binding style
gilt, centrepiece
Binding detail

Brown leather on pasteboard. Stamped arabesque centrepiece, gilded (design close to but definitely not identical with Pearson, 'Cambridge', C14). Three-line blind fillets to the edges. Remains of green cord tie in situ in upper station on front board; stubs elsewhere. The same style of binding used on Harsnett, H.f.29.

Place of binding

?London

Date range for binding

s. xvi ex or s. xvii in

Hosting Information
Number of fragments

1 plus one blank, but with crease showing it was cut from the same manuscript

Number of manuscripts represented

1

Further Information
Provenance

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

Author: James Willoughby
Colchester Harsnett H.f.15 upper board
List of Fragments
Colchester Harsnett H.f.15 front strip
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.15 i