Copy of Thomas Wolsey, his life and death, ca. 1554-1558 [manuscript], ca. 1600.
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Title
Copy of Thomas Wolsey, his life and death, ca. 1554-1558 [manuscript], ca. 1600.
Uniform title
Negotiations of Thomas Wolsey
Description
52 leaves.
Scope and content
Biography of Wolsey by George Cavendish from a copy derived from Cavendish's autograph version, Egerton MS 2402 (British Library). Like the other surviving manuscript copies made before it was printed, it lacks a passage that appears in the original (see leaf 17v).
Note
First printed in 1641 as The negotiations of Thomas Woolsey (Wing C1619).
Date of composition of original manuscript, ca. 1554-1558, based on information from Sylvester's 1959 edition.
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Date of composition of original manuscript, ca. 1554-1558, based on information from Sylvester's 1959 edition.
This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It contains unverified data from catalog cards and may contain incorrect or incomplete information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance.
Publications about material
No. 27 in R.S. Sylvester's list of all the known manuscripts of this work, in his edition of it for the Early English Text Society, no. 243 (1959).
Provenance
Roger Bradshaigh's book, 1659.
Exhibited
Copy 2. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2010. Vivat Rex!
Cited/described in
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 759.1
Genre/form
Manuscripts (documents)
Item Details
Call number
V.b.111
Folger accession
cs759