Host Volume

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.27

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

Homiliae, sive conciones praestantissimorum Ecclesiae Catholicae doctorum

Publication

Cologne: Maternus Cholius, 1569

Binding Information
Binding style
blind-stamped, centrepiece
Binding detail

Brown calf over pasteboard; a central panel formed by two blind fillets with gilded fleuron corner-pieces (Pearson, Oxford, tool 62); blind centrepiece (close to Pearson, Oxford , xv or xvi, but note the caution on the international popularity of this design). Front board detached. Slots for cord ties, but nothing left in situ.

Place of binding

?Oxford

Date range for binding

?c.1580 x 1619

Hosting Information
Number of fragments

2 (one a blank)

Number of manuscripts represented

1

Further Information
Provenance

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

Author: James Willoughby
Colchester Harsnett H.f.27 upper board
List of Fragments
Colchester Harsnett H.f.27 front strip
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.27 i