Host Volume

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett I.a.20

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

Johann Wild (Joannes Ferus)

Title of volume

In Ecclesiasten Salomonis Annotationes...

Bibliographical reference for printing

USTC 665569

Publication

Mainz: Franz Behem ('apud Franciscum Behem'), 1556

Binding Information
Binding style
blind-stamped, centrepiece
Binding detail

The dark leather over the pasteboards is rather worn, but the centrepiece is identifiable as a variant of Pearson, Oxford, xix but has no background lines so is definably not that version used in Oxford or in Cambridge. Evidence of green cloth ties. Title painted on fore-edge: 'Ferus in eccles'.

Place of binding

?London

Date range for binding

s. xvi 2

Hosting Information
Number of fragments

2 (+ 2, as pastedowns, from a printed Book of Common Prayer)

Number of manuscripts represented

2

Further Information
Provenance
  • 'Knight': name written twice on the pasteboard of the lower board.
  • Richard Bancroft (1544-1610), archbishop of Canterbury, 1604-10: based on the presence of a tab, presumably from Babel MS 18.
  • Samuel Harsnett (1561–1631), archbishop of York, 1629–31.
Author: David Rundle_
Colchester Harsnett I.a.20 lower board
List of Fragments
Colchester Harsnett I.a.20 ii verso
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett I.a.20 ii
Colchester Harsnett I.a.20 i
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett I.a.20 i