MS. Eng. hist. b. 119
Summary Catalogue no.: 31347
Contents
Beginning missing; breaks off on fol. 4v, dorse of the original third membrane ( 'be joyned with an impossible, etc.'); dorses of the other membranes blank.
Printed Third Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, London, 1872, pp. 279-80 from this unique manuscript; for the context see Ralph Griffiths, The Reign of Henry VI (2nd ed., 1998), pp. 682-3.Dated by the Summary Catalogue to the early sixteenth century, but more likely to be a contemporary production.
16th- or 17th-century endorsement: 'The Answere of / vnto the Duke of / Declaration' (sic: it is not obvious that any text has been lost, and the writer was perhaps ignorant of the original context).
Physical Description
Layout
Unruled. Fol. 3r: 53 long lines, written space 385 × 265 mm.
Hand(s)
Current anglicana, some secretary forms.
Decoration
None.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Nevill family of Nevill Holt, Leicestershire (see HMC III, cited above)
'Bought by the Bodleian ... on 8 July 1892', privately.
Record Sources
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2025-02: Description revised.