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Treatises on the divorce of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, published in Letters...
Catalogue reference: SP 1/62
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1531
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Treatises on the divorce of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, published in Letters and Papers ... of Henry VIII, vol. V, nos 2, 4 and 5(3-7): 1531.
SP 1/62 fos 1-34v (LP v. 2): fragmentary printer's copy of Gravissimae atque exactissime illustrissimarum totius Italie et Galliae academiarum censurae (London, [April 1530]) STC 14286, See Murphy, 'Debate', pp. 195-203 and Edward Surtz and Virginia Murphy, eds, The Divorce Tracts of Henry VIII (Angers, 1988), pp. xxvi-xxix.
SP 1/62 fos 36-46v,[LP v. 4]: 'A Compendious Annotation', printed in Pocock, Records of the Reformation, II, pp. 94-9, English summary of a now lost Latin treatise. There is another copy in British Library, Additional MS 4622, fos. 104-14v. See H. A. Kelly, Matrimonial Trials of Henry VIII (Stanford, 1976), pp. 67-73 and Murphy, 'Debate', pp. 95-7, where dated between 18 February and November 1528.
SP1/62 fos 60-139, [LP v. 5 (4)]: 'Non hodie', a reply - along with SP1/63 fos l-65v (lower right foliation) (LP v. 5 (9)) and SP 1/67, fos 184-280v (LP v. 461) below - to a now lost treatise by John Fisher, related to and probably earlier than section H (SP 1/63, fos 386-407v below). See Murphy, 'Debate', pp. 142-63, where dated probably between mid-1529 and early 1531. See also SP 1/64 fos 198-219v below.
SPl/62 fos 150-229v, [LP v. 5 (5)] consisting of four quires. It probably contains part of two treatises, composed respectively of the first and fourth quires, and the second and third. See Murphy, 'Debate', pp. 264-8. Folios 150-66v, 'Ad tractandum', incomplete, related to SP 1/63, fos 265-303v. Folios 167-91v and 192-204v, 'veteres philosophi', related to SP 1/64, fos 148-95v. See Murphy, 'Debate', pp. 266-8. Folios 205-28v, 'erubescere videmus', earlier version of SP 1/63, fos 265-303v. See Murphy, 'Debate', pp. 264-6.
SP1/62 fos 237-42v, [LP v. 5 (7)]: fragmentary draft of Censurae academiarum in the hand of one of its authors. See Murphy, 'Debate', pp. 191-3 and Surtz and Murphy, pp. xxiv-xxv.
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