Host Volume

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett K.a.23

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

Philip Melanchthon et al.

Title of volume

Centuaria epistolarum theologicarum ad Iohannem Schwebelium

Bibliographical reference for printing

USTC 620945

Publication

Zweibrücken: Casparus Wittelius, 1597

Binding Information
Binding style
gilt, centrepiece
Binding detail

Brown leather over pasteboard. Stamped centrepiece, gold-tooled, with Archbishop Whitgift's arms (defined by BAB as stamp 3). Fillets forming rectangles at edge, several blind, one gilt. Gilt flower stamped in each compartment on spine. Two holes on each board for cloth ties. Written on fore-edge, twice: '23'.

Place of binding

England

Date range for binding

1586 x 1604

Hosting Information
Number of fragments

3

Number of manuscripts represented

2

Further Information
Provenance
  • John Whitgift (1530-1604), archbishop of Canterbury, 1583-1604: his arms as archbishop on binding.
  • Richard Bancroft (1544-1610), archbishop of Canterbury, 1604-1610: this is inferred from the usual line of descent from Whitgift to Harsnett.
  • Samuel Harsnett (1561-1631), archbishop of York, 1629-31.
Author: David Rundle_
Colchester Harsnett K.a.23 upper board
List of Fragments
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett K.a.23 ii
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett K.a.23 i
Colchester Harsnett K.a.23 iii
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett K.a.23 iii