Host Volume

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.h.14

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

Pontificale nouiter impressum perpulchrisque characteribus diligentissime annotatum.

Bibliographical reference for printing

USTC 143855

Publication

Lyon: Jean Moilin alias de Cambrai, 1511

Binding Information
Binding style
blind-stamped, diaper design
Binding detail

Dark leather over boards (wood at front cracked), sewn on four thongs. On each board, a rectangle formed by the repeated use of a roll with symbols associated with Catherine of Aragon (portcullis, pomegranate, antelope, rose); within rectangle diaper design, with each lozenge having a flower motif. A near-identical binding and its provenance is discussed by Trevor Mill, 'A Sixteenth-Century English Binding in the State Library of Victoria: links between Cambridge and Cologne', Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, iv (1980), pp. 234-40.

The image provides a

Place of binding

?Cambridge

Date range for binding

1511 x 1530

Hosting Information
Number of fragments

1

Number of manuscripts represented

1

Further Information
Provenance
  • William Duffield, bishop of Ascalon, bought it second-hand in 1530: below end of opening contents list (fol. [ii verso]): 'Pontificale in Christo patris domini domini Willelmi duffildi sacre pagine professoris ordinis minorum conuentus coventrensis necnon permissione diuina asculoenensis episcopi emptus per eundem Londoniis anno salutis 1530 siue consecracionis primo qui utetur oret fideliter pro anima predicti domini'; other signs of his ownership including 'Willielmus asculenen (sic) episcopus me emit 1530' written in the empty shield at bottom of the first folio of text; he writes copious
Author: David Rundle_
Colchester Harsnett H.h.14 upper board detail
List of Fragments
Colchester Harsnett H.h.14 i verso
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.h.14 i