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Manuscript №
573
Location
London
Collection
British Library
Reference
Royal 20 B III
Headnote
Treatise on the Love of God
Estimated date of production
s.xv (1)
Folia
i+98
Place of production
London
Produced for
Notes
see catalogue for contents; "Scott (2008) associates the initials with the artist of Oxford, All Souls Library 10, a New Testament produced between 1415-1430, probably in London. " Henry VIII (b. 1491, d. 1547), king of England and Ireland: the monogram 'HR' [for Henricus Rex] (f. 1). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 551' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542 as 'Mirroir pur bien vivre', with an annotation 'Deficit this booke'." Catchwords and bifolium signatures."
Sources for this record
https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=5832&CollID=16&NStart=200203
https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/9200397/BibliographicResource_3000126277878.html

Manuscript contents

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Owners of this manuscript

Owners
Owner number Owner Period Gender Type Source
1 Henry VIII s.xvi (med) man lay https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=5832&CollID=16&NStart=200203