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Add MS 5464
- Record Id:
- 032-002898722
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002898722
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100024158064.0x000001
- LARK:
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 5464
- Title:
- Draft treatise against papal supremacy by Edward VI
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-3v: An inserted paper bifolium contains an unfinished copy of the preface to a collection of passages of Scripture on faith by Edward VI addressed to his uncle the Duke of Somerset, Edward Seymour, in French. A complete copy is found in Add MS 9000. It is followed by practice of both capital and lower-case letters.
ff. 4r-40v: Draft autograph copy of a treatise against papal supremacy in French by Edward VI, entitled 'Alencontre les abus du monde'. and dated 13 December 1548 (f. 4r). The end of the treatise is dated 14 March 1549 (f. 40v). The 'fair' autograph copy is found in Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.12.59 (see MacCulloch, Tudor Church Militant (1999), p. 226 n. 41).
The manuscript is corrected throughout. The most likely individual responsible for these corrections is Jean Belmaine (fl. 1546-1559), the French tutor of Edward VI. The same hand notes at the end of the book (f. 41v): 'Tout ainsi qu'un bon Paintre peut representer le visaige, regard, contenance et corpulence d'un Prince: Ainsi par les escritz, parolles et actions d'un Prince, on peut facilement entendre quel Esprit est en luy, et aquoy Il est adonné, comme on peut veoir par les Escritz de ce Jeune Roy, lequel composa et escrivit ce livre, n'ayant encores douze ans accomplis, Et sans l'ayde de parsonne vivant, excepté des propos qu'il avoit ouys de plusieurs, et la souvenance qu'il avoit des livres qu'il avoit leuz. Car des ce qu'il commenca a escrivre ledict livre et jusques a ce qu'il l'eust achevé, ledict livre a tousjours esté en ma garde iusques a present.'
Jean Belmaine's hand is found in Royal MS 16 E. I, Royal MS 20 A. XIV, Add MS 74745, and possibly also Royal MS 16 E. XXVIII.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-002898722
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002898722
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Paper codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_5464 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1548
- End Date:
- 1549
- Date Range:
- 1548-1549
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: paper.
Dimensions: 200 x 155 mm.
Foliation: ff. 41 (+ 4 unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).
Script: Humanistic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum/British Library in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Edward VI (b. 1537, d. 1553), king of England and Ireland: his autograph manuscript.
James West (b. 1703, d. 1772), politician and antiquary: his signature on f. 1r.
John Jackson (d. 1794), antiquary, his sale August 1794, lot 348: note that the manuscript was purchased at the sale of his library (f. [iv]r) by the British Museum.
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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John Gough Nichols, Literary Remains of King Edward the Sixth: Edited from His Autograph Manuscripts, with Historical Notes, and a Biographical Memoir, 2 vols (London: J. B. Nichols and Sons, 1857), I, pp. 154, 173-74.
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation (London: Allen Lane–The Penguin Press, 1999), pp. 26-27, 31 (fig. 11), p. 226 (ns 41 and 47).
Aysha Pollnitz, 'Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R.7.31.', Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online, (2006-2009) http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk/ [accessed 9 March 2015], p. 4.
- Exhibitions:
- Les Vrais Tudors, Musee du Luxembourg, Paris, 16 March 2015 - 19 July 2015
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Henry VIII letter. Exhibited: Les Vrais Tudors, Musee du Luxembourg, Paris, 16 March 2015 - 19 July 2015