Leaves from a manuscript compilation of works of Thomas More, between approximately 1534 and 1599?
- Description
- Two leaves from a mid- to late-16th-century volume of multiple works of Thomas More, written in 33-36 lines of secretary script with running titles in the top margin and capital letters marking sections in the left margin. The leaves are half-median or chancery folio paper, with a watermark of a glove surmounted by a trefoil. Leaf 1 (244 x 170 mm), with running title The fourth booke, contains text from More's The answere to the fyrst parte of the poysened booke, book 4, chapters 2-3, corresponding roughly, with textual variants, to pages clxxxvii-cxc in the edition printed in 1534 (STC 18077). Leaf 2 (245 x 174 mm), with running title The thyrde booke, contains text from More's Dyaloge of dyvers matters, correspondingly roughly to pages cxviii-cxviiii in the edition printed in 1530 (STC 18085). Both works are defenses of the Catholic Church against Protestant challengers.
- Creator
- More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- polemics
- fragments (object portions)
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
- Date
- 1534
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Tyndale, William, -1536. Souper of the Lorde
- Catholic Church -- Apologetic works -- Early works to 1800
- Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800
- Collection
- M. A. Shaaber Fund
- Manuscript Fragment Collection
- Extent
- 1 item (2 leaves)
- Notes
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the M. A. Shaaber Fund.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
- The M. A. Shaaber Fund Home Page
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 591 Folder 46
- Provenance
- Sold at auction at Addison & Sarova Auctioneers (Macon, Georgia), 5 November 2016, lot 189 (Leaf 1), and 26 August 2017, lot 61 (Leaf 2).
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
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