Host Volume

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.g.17

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

Erasmus

Title of volume

In novum testamentum annotationes

Publication

Basel: Froben, 1540

Binding Information
Binding style
blind-stamped, roll
Binding detail

Brown leather over bevelled wooden boards, blind-tooled panel made of doubled roll, with central lozenge from same roll (Oldham Roll FP. b (2) 666). Outer fillet frame going to edges, crossing at corners. Sewn on four thongs. Rebacked. Upper fore-edge clasp of leather and brass still in place; lower one entirely lost.

Date range for binding

1540–42

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
Colchester Harsnett H.g.17 lower board
List of Fragments
Colchester Harsnett H.g.17 ii
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.g.17 ii
Colchester Harsnett H.g.17 i
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.g.17 i