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MORE (Sir Thomas). A Treatise to receyve the Blessed Bodye of our Lorde, sacramentally and virtually both; made by the excellent learned, wise, virtuous and godly man, Sir Thomas More knight, (sometyme Lords chancelour of England) whyle he was prisoner in the tower of London anno 1534 & 1535, [second half of the 16th century].
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MORE (Sir Thomas). A Treatise to receyve the Blessed Bodye of our Lorde, sacramentally and virtually both; made by the excellent learned, wise, virtuous and godly man, Sir Thomas More knight, (sometyme Lords chancelour of England) whyle he was prisoner in the tower of London anno 1534 & 1535, [second half of the 16th century].
Small 4° (approx. 205 x 150 mm.), MANUSCRIPT COPY ON PAPER, in a secretary hand, 13 pages (incomplete at end), forming the final portion of a compilation of several English Catholic devotional works. 65 leaves, lightly ruled in pencil, mostly 24 lines, written in brown ink. ORIGINAL BINDING OF A VELLUM BIFOLIUM FROM A LATE 13TH-CENTURY ENGLISH CHOIRBOOK with music on 4 red-ruled staves, stitched onto leather thongs. Provenance: John Burns. (sold by Sotheby's after his death in 1943/44. According to a slip inserted in the volume he acquired it in December 1920)
This is one of the three devotional treatises written by Sir Thomas More, while in the Tower before his execution, the most famous being his 'Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation'. Soon after More's death copies of these treatises began to circulate in manuscript. Under Queen Mary they were published in the great 1557 edition of More's works; however, after her death recusant texts once more had to circulate surreptitiously. This is a particularly fine example of Elizabethan recusancy.
This manuscript is recorded in the Yale edition of the Complete Works of Sir Thomas More vol. 13 p. cxxiv. It is one of only seven early manuscripts of this work of textual significance. The editors of the Yale edition date it to the last quarter of the 16th century, but rely on textual evidence, presuming that it is based on Fowler's Brief Form of Confession published in 1576. But it may be earlier and derive from the same exemplar as Fowler's. Unfortunately only about two-thirds of the text of More's treatise is present. It breaks off at page 199 line 5 of the Yale edition.
The other texts in the volume comprise about twelve treatises and devotions, most of them very brief. The principal one is the first (on pp. 1-34v) entitled "Extra ecclesiam non est salus, wythout the churche there is no healthe", followed by others, headed "Certayne traditions lost by the Apostles" (p. 36); "Image" (p. 46); "Holye Water" (p. 47); "Basilius Magnus" (p. 52v); "Avaricia" (p. 56)
Loosely hidden between the two sheets of the lower cover is a manuscript copy of an indulgence dated 6 February 1575 from Pope Gregory XIII to Edmund Tanner, Bishop of Cork and Cloyne. It appears to have been copied from one printed in Rome by Antonio Blado. It is written both sides of one folio sheet, folded to fit into the 'pocket', and was at one time stitched in.
Small 4° (approx. 205 x 150 mm.), MANUSCRIPT COPY ON PAPER, in a secretary hand, 13 pages (incomplete at end), forming the final portion of a compilation of several English Catholic devotional works. 65 leaves, lightly ruled in pencil, mostly 24 lines, written in brown ink. ORIGINAL BINDING OF A VELLUM BIFOLIUM FROM A LATE 13TH-CENTURY ENGLISH CHOIRBOOK with music on 4 red-ruled staves, stitched onto leather thongs. Provenance: John Burns. (sold by Sotheby's after his death in 1943/44. According to a slip inserted in the volume he acquired it in December 1920)
This is one of the three devotional treatises written by Sir Thomas More, while in the Tower before his execution, the most famous being his 'Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation'. Soon after More's death copies of these treatises began to circulate in manuscript. Under Queen Mary they were published in the great 1557 edition of More's works; however, after her death recusant texts once more had to circulate surreptitiously. This is a particularly fine example of Elizabethan recusancy.
This manuscript is recorded in the Yale edition of the Complete Works of Sir Thomas More vol. 13 p. cxxiv. It is one of only seven early manuscripts of this work of textual significance. The editors of the Yale edition date it to the last quarter of the 16th century, but rely on textual evidence, presuming that it is based on Fowler's Brief Form of Confession published in 1576. But it may be earlier and derive from the same exemplar as Fowler's. Unfortunately only about two-thirds of the text of More's treatise is present. It breaks off at page 199 line 5 of the Yale edition.
The other texts in the volume comprise about twelve treatises and devotions, most of them very brief. The principal one is the first (on pp. 1-34v) entitled "Extra ecclesiam non est salus, wythout the churche there is no healthe", followed by others, headed "Certayne traditions lost by the Apostles" (p. 36); "Image" (p. 46); "Holye Water" (p. 47); "Basilius Magnus" (p. 52v); "Avaricia" (p. 56)
Loosely hidden between the two sheets of the lower cover is a manuscript copy of an indulgence dated 6 February 1575 from Pope Gregory XIII to Edmund Tanner, Bishop of Cork and Cloyne. It appears to have been copied from one printed in Rome by Antonio Blado. It is written both sides of one folio sheet, folded to fit into the 'pocket', and was at one time stitched in.