Host Volume

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.28

Publication Details

Type of host

printed book retaining early binding

Author of volume

Augustinus de Ancona

Title of volume

Summa de potestate ecclesiastica

Bibliographical reference for printing

GW 3053; ISTC ia01366000

Publication

[Lyons]: [Petrus Ungarus (Pierre Hongre)], [not after 1480]

Binding Information

Binding style

blind-stamped, panel

Binding detail

By the Unicorn Binder. Brown leather on bevelled boards; four raised bands of split alum-tawed thongs. Central panel formed by intersecting tramlines of three-line fillets, filled with small-tool decoration (foliate scrolls and separate wyvern stamp); small tools also outside the frame; the central panel with thin three-line fillets in diaper pattern, each lozenge filled with a small-tool: a fleuron, a pelican, or a stag. Catch-plates and clasps still in situ on the fore-edge; stubs of leather remain. Label formerly on back board, near the top, fixed with ten nails. Evidence for a chain-staple

Place of binding

Cambridge

Date range for binding

c. 1480 x 1504

Hosting Information

Number of fragments

Number of manuscripts represented

Further Information

Provenance

William Rawson (d. 1495), fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge; price mentioned: 'Liber M. W. Rawson. Solui pro isto – vij s. vj d.' (s. xv ex, front pastedown).
Pembroke Hall, Cambridge: 'Iste liber constat Aule Penbrochie' (s. xv/xvi, back pastedown).
Samuel Harsnett (1561–1631), archbishop of York, 1629–31.

Bibliography for volume

MLGB3.

Author: James Willoughby

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List of Fragments