Description of University of Pennsylvania Oversize Ms. Codex 1641: The history of King Richard the Third (unfinished) / University of Pennsylvania 2017-10-23 2017-10-23 These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 1641: The history of King Richard the Third (unfinished) / are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2017 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Title from caption title (p. 1). Ms. codex. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206 University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 1641 9960312873503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/874013649 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000254 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366213 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3c24qn19 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1229057 Late 17th-century copy of Thomas More's negative biography of Richard III of England, copied from the version edited by John Rastell in the Workes of Sir Thomas More knyght (London, 1557), including side notes and passages supplied by Rastell in translation from Thomas More's Latin version. The history of King Richard the Third (unfinished) / More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535 More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535 Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund Rare Books Acquisition Fund in Honor of Dean Rebecca Bushnell former owner Buckingham, John Sheffield, Duke of, 1647-1721 former owner Rasmussen, Eric, 1960-

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 49 leaves : 308 x 194 (268 x 150) mm bound to 314 x 206 mm Paper, ii + 49 leaves; [1], 2-97, [98], contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners. Written in 31 long lines; frame-ruled in ink. Written in cursive script, with names of people and places in slightly larger, bold roman script. Margins ruled in faint red ink. Bookplate, Inside front cover

Contemporary morocco with gilt spine and covers stamped with the arms of John Sheffield after receiving the Order of the Garter; gilt edges and marbled endpapers.

Written in England between 1674, when John Sheffield received the Order of the Garter, and 1694, when he was created marquess (arms on covers; Philadelphia Rare Book & Manuscript Company).

between 1674 and 1694 England Formerly owned by John Yorke, Esq. (several family members with that name and rank), of Bewerley, York, in the late 18th or 19th century (bookplate inside upper cover). Sold by dealer Arthur Freeman to Eric Rasmussen. Sold by Philadelphia Rare Book & Manuscript Company, 2013. Formerly owned by John Sheffield, third Earl of Mulgrave, subsequently first Marquess of Normanby and Duke of Buckingham (Philadelphia Rare Book & Manuscript Company). Book Type Accounts Almanac Anthology Antiphonary Armorial Bible Biography Book of Hours Breviary Catalog Chronicle Collection of Sermons Commentary Compendium Contract Court records Dictionary Document Dogale Drama Encyclopedia Epic Estate inventory Friendship book Genealogy Glossary Gospel Lectionary Gospels Government records Gradual Halakhah Haggadah Homilary Horologion Hybrid book Hymnal Inventory Koran Land survey Lectionary Lecture notes Mass book Miscellany Missal Passion play Pontifical Portolan chart Prayer book Private devotional text Processional Protective scroll Psalter Psalter-Hours Qur`an Recipe book Register Saint's Life Scribal manual Song book Speech or address Torah Treatise Will Century 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century Culture Abbasid Arabic Armenian Ashkenazi Austrian Bohemian Byzantine Carolingian Catalan Chinese Christian Coptic Dutch Egyptian English Ethiopian Fatimid Filipino Flemish French German Greek Hungarian Indian Islamic Italian Jewish Karaite Mamluk Mexican Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Persian Portuguese Qajar Rajput Russian Safavid Sephardi Spanish Swiss Timurid Turkish Yemenite Descriptive term Accordion book Album Annotated Binding Calendar Calligraphy Caroline minuscule Chart Charter Colophon Damage Diagrams Drawing Early Abbasid script Engraving Forgery Fragment Gloss Gothic Gothic book hand Grisaille Grotesques Headpiece Heraldry Historiated initial Humanistic Illumination Illustration Inhabited initial Kufic Manicules Medallion Micrography Miniature Missing leaves Musical notation New Abbasid style Notable binding Original binding Ornament Painting Palimpsest Paper Penwork initial Puzzle initial Ragini Romanesque Scrapbook Scroll Scroll-work initial Seals Tables Textura Treasure binding Watermark White-vine lettering Woodcuts Geography Afghanistan Armenia Austria Belgium Central Arab lands (Near East) Central Asia China Croatia Czech Republic Egypt England Ethiopia Flanders France Germany Greece Hungary India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Maghreb Mexico Morocco Netherlands Pakistan Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Switzerland Turkey United States Wales Yemen Other Alchemy Allegory Animal culture Aphorisms Astrology Astronomy Biblical Binding waste Cartography Catholic church Chemistry Church Fathers City planning Cosmology Cryptography Devotion Dialogue Ethics Financial records Fortune-telling Franciscans Friendship Games Geography Geomancy Grammar History Index Instructional materials Kabbalah Legal Lists Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Logic Magic Maps Maritime Mathematics Medieval romance Metaphysics Meteorology Military art and science Mineralogy Mysticism Penitential Philosophy Piyutim Polemic Responsa Rhetoric Schedule Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Shipbuilding Statutes Storytelling Sufism Theology Wine and winemaking Richard--III,--King of England,--1452-1485 Richard--III,--King of England,--1452-1485 History Great Britain--History--Richard III, 1483-1485 Great Britain Biographies (literary works) Codices Manuscripts, English Manuscripts, European Biography 17th century English England Paper History