Leaves from a manuscript compilation of works of Thomas More, between approximately 1534 and 1599?

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535.

Contributor:

M.A. Shaaber Fund for the Furness Shakespeare Library.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tyndale, William, -1536. Souper of the Lorde.

Tyndale, William.

Catholic Church--Apologetic works--Early works to 1800.

Catholic Church.

Catholic Church--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

polemics

fragments (object portions)

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn 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).

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves)

Contained In:

Manuscript Fragment Collection. Folder 46

Place of Publication:

between approximately 1534 and 1599?

Summary:

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.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the M.A. Shaaber Fund for the Furness Shakespeare Library.

Publications about:

Described, together with other leaves from the same parent manuscript, by Edwards, A.S.G. and Mitch Fraas. "A new manuscript of More's English works." The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, Seventh Series, 20 (March 2019), p. 89-93.

OCLC:

1150230232