Host Volume

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.1

Publication Details

Type of host

printed book retaining early binding

Author of volume

Iohannes Gagnaeus

Title of volume

Clarissima et facillima in quatuor sacra Iesu Christi Evangelia ... scholia

Publication

Paris: Carole Guillard (et uidua Claudii Cheuallonii, et Guilelmus Desboys), 1552

Binding Information

Binding style

blind-stamped, centrepiece

Binding detail

Blind fillets of four at outer edge, intersecting, with an inner frame of four with corner fleurons. A blind-stamped centrepiece is a shield with fretted edges.

Hosting Information

Number of fragments

from one manuscript: 1 (at back) with text, 1 (at front) blank; from another: a tab

Number of manuscripts represented

Further Information

Provenance

John, 6th Baron Lumley (1534-1609): S. Jayne and F. R. Johnson ed., The Lumley Library (London, 1956), p. 303 (also noting that H.b.10-13 were in Lumley's collection; none has manuscript fragments and so they fall beyond the scope of this catalogue).
Richard Bancroft (1544-1610), archbishop of Canterbury, 1604-10: see J. P. Carley, '"A Great Gatherer Together of Books": Archbishop Bancroft's Library at Lambeth (1610) and its Sources', Lambeth Palace Library. Annual Review (2001), pp. 51-64 at p. 57.
Samuel Harsnett (1561–1631), archbishop of York, 1629–31.

Author: James Willoughby

Monday, June 22, 2015 - 11:07

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