Host Volume

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.g.2

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

Tertullian

Title of volume

Opera Tertulliani et Arnobii quotquot ab interitu vindicari summorum virorum industria potuerunt ... omnia studio et labore Renati Lavrentii de la Barre

Publication

Paris: Guilielmus Iulianus (colophon: Excudebat Petrus le Voirrier Regius in Mathematicis Typographus), 1580

Binding Information
Binding style
blind-stamped, centrepiece
Binding detail

Light brown calf over pasteboards, rebacked on six thongs by Richard Amer, Lincoln Inn's Gate, 1971. Large gilt centrepiece, a gilt fillet to the edges. Both boards now detached.

Date range for binding

s. xvi ex / s. xvii in

Hosting Information
Number of fragments

2

Number of manuscripts represented

1

Further Information
Provenance
  • Notes at the final flyleaves on the preceding volume, by a pre-Harsnett owner.
  • Samuel Harsnett (1561–1631), archbishop of York, 1629–31.
Author: James Willoughby
Colchester Harsnett H.g.2 lower board
List of Fragments
Colchester Harsnett H.g.2 ii
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.g.2 ii
Colchester Harsnett H.g.2 i
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.g.2 i