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MS. Laud Misc. 597

Summary Catalogue no.: 1474

Contents

Ordinances for the household of Henry VIII ('Eltham ordinances'),

drawn up by Cardinal Wolsey in 1526

Language(s): English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good border (drawing, with royal arms).

Binding

Limp vellum binding.

History

Origin: after 1526 ; English

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885).
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 425–6
Quarto Catalogue, p. 573
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 63

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-08: Add binding information from Quarto Catalogue.