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MS. Laud Misc. 1

Summary Catalogue no.: 653

Prayer-book of Jane Wriothesley

Contents

Prayer book,

with added inscriptions, some with one or two couplets of verse, by at least six Tudor women, as follows:

(fol. 2r)

Margaret Douglas

‘As Y have sayd ye shall me fynd, | In word and ded, Y you asuer,| Wyche ys to be your ernest frynd,| As long as my lyf doth induer.| Margaret Dowglas’

(fol. 2r, 2v)

Elizabeth Fitzwalter

(fol. 2v)

'M.T'., after a four-line poem

(fol. 8v)

Queen Katherine Parr

‘Madam althowe I have differred writtyng in your booke, | I am no lesse your frend than you do looke. | Kateryn the Quene KP’

(fol. 36r)

Marie Wriothesley

(fol. 45v)

Princess Mary (according to a later inscription)

‘Good madame I do desyer you most hartly to pray,| that in prosperyte and adversyte I may, |have grace to kepe the trewe way ;| your lovyng frende to my⟨⟩’

(fols. 52–59r)

Tower prayers of Thomas More (Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence, ed. J. Mueller (2011), 495 n. 13)

Language(s): Latin and English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 67 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 100 × 80 mm.

History

Origin: 16th century, first half

Provenance and Acquisition

Jane Wriothesley (fol. 1v).

William Laud, by 1633.

Part of his first donation to the Bodleian, 1635.

Record Sources

Description adapted (August 2022) from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885) and from brief unpublished description by B. C. Barker-Benfield, 2016, with reference to published literature as cited.
Quarto Catalogue, col. 55
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 29

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-08: Description revised for publication on Digital Bodleian.