Historiae Augustae Scriptores VI.

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Provenance: Covers with the gilt arms of William Herris / Harris, of Cricksea (Crixeth), Essex, 1563-1622, 3rd son of Sir William Herris: arms: quarterly 1 4: On a bend engrailed three cinquefoils (Herris); 2 3: Goutty de sang [7 drops of blood] (?Lemming / Montgomery], a crescent for difference as a 2nd (surviving) son. His initials “W H” in gilt on the covers (with “P H” [Pembroke Hall] ) and on the covers. David Pearson, in Provenance research in Book History: a Handbook (1994), notes the unusual use of Herris’s initials on the fore-edge as a mark of ownership (p. 125) and illustrates one of the Pembroke College examples (fig. 4.29). The online database of British Armorial bindings records 13 titles with Herris’s arms (not including the present). Nine of these are still at Pembroke College, 3 are in other Cambridge colleges (St John’s, Magdalene, Emmanuel) and 1 is at Birmingham Oratory. Two of the remaining volumes complement the present volume in subject matter: Janus Gruterus, ed, Historiae Augustae scrioptores latini minores (Hanau, 1611) and Friedrich Sylburg, Romanae historiae scriptores Graeci minores (Frankfurt, 1590; Vol 3 only); both are still at Pembroke College. Two of the volumes (at St John’s College and Emmanuel College) have contemporary gift inscriptions: “Anno Domi, 1630. Ex dono Richardi Sybbes … theologiae professoris, huius collegij quondam socii senioris” [Gift of Richard Sibbes (d. 1635), Senior Fellow, to St John’s College]; “Ex dono magistri Hansco

• Year: 1620

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