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Posted:
07 Feb 2018
| (old shelfmark **A.70.2) | |
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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 + 143 folios + ii paper flyleaves, 322 x 200 (ca. 210 x 100) mm, ca. 10 - 35 long lines, unruled |
| Rubric: | (fol. 18r) 1534. 3 Jan: Vol. VII. 14 p. 6. Chapnys to the Emperor Charles V |
| Incipit: | The little pamphlet composed by the Council, which I sent to your majesty |
| 2o folio: | If anything happened |
| Explicit: | (fol. 120r) abstract per me |
| Contents: | Fols. 8r – 112v, Abstracts of Spanish Dispatches, chiefly concerning the divorce of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, part 2, 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 - 1918. The MS is written in blue-black ink, with Larman’s comments and notes in red. Larman paginated the written portions of the MS only, with fol.18r 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 |
