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.
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.
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