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

Name:

More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535

Date:

1534

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.

Language:

English

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).

Relation:

The M. A. Shaaber Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366280

Subject:

Tyndale, William, -1536. Souper of the Lorde; Catholic Church -- Apologetic works -- Early works to 1800; Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800

Form/Genre:

Polemics; Fragments (object portions); Manuscripts, English -- 16th century; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves)

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

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

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 591 Folder 46

Collection:

Manuscript Fragment Collection; M. A. Shaaber Fund