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Posted:
07 Feb 2018
| (old shelfmark **A.70.1) | |
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| Language: | English, with Latin |
| Origin: | England, York |
| Date: | 20th c., before 1961 |
| Material: | Paper (factory made) |
| Physical Description: | ii paper flyleaves + 116 folios + ii paper flyleaves, 320 x 198 (ca. 240 x 120) mm, ca. 25 – 47 long lines, unruled |
| Rubric: | (fol. 8r) 1529. Jan: 16. Vol. IV pt. 2. 5177 p. 2274. Inigo de Mendoza to Charles V |
| Incipit: | The king and his council attach so much importance to the brief that the Emperor has, that they are trying by every means to get it into their hands |
| 2o folio: | Mr Friedmann, ‘Anne Boleyn’ |
| Explicit: | (fol. 112v) abstract per me |
| Contents: | Fols. 8r – 112v, Abstracts of Spanish Dispatches, chiefly concerning the divorce of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, with commentary by G. E. Larman |
| Script: | Documentary cursive (pseudo-Secretary) |
| Scribe: | George Edward Larman (1895 - 1961) |
| Decoration: | None |
| Provenance: | George Edward Larman (1895 – 1961); his bequest, 1961 |
| Binding: | 20th c., half brown cloth and brown leather over paste boards, red and gold endbands |
| Notes: | Part of the Larman Bequest. Larman was a student at Trinity Hall 1914 - 1819. The MS is written in blue-black ink, with Larman’s comments and notes in red. The foliation is heavily trimmed; Larman subsequently paginated the written portions of the MS, with fol. 8r as ‘p. 1’. The text is copied from the published Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic of Henry VIII. |
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| © Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
