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While all of the previous chapters have examined printed books dedicated to Mary and some of her royal predecessors, this chapter will explore manuscripts dedicated to her. As noted in the first chapter, during Mary’s lifetime there was still significant overlap in desire for, prestige of, and readership of manuscripts and printed books. Julia Boffey has recently argued that during the late-fifteenth- and early-sixteenth-century books and manuscripts coexisted because readers used them side by side. Print had advantages of saved labor cost, commercial profit, and “speedy multiplication,” but readers made no clear distinction between books and manuscripts.1 The fact that during her lifetime Mary received at least 18 dedicated manuscripts compared with 33 printed books shows that there were blurred lines between the two types of book production.
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David Starkey, “An Attendant Lord? Henry Parker, Lord Morley,” in “Triumphs of English”: Henry Parker, Lord Morley Translator to the Tudor Court, ed. James P. Carley and Marie Axton (London: The British Library, 2000), 1–7.
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The dedications to each manuscript have been reprinted in Herbert G. Wright, Forty-six Lives (London: Early English Text Society, 1943), 168–184.
see Jaime Goodrich, “Mary Tudor, Lord Morley, and St. Thomas Aquinas: The Politics of Pious Translation at the Henrician Court,” ANQ, 24 (2011), 11–22.
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Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stallybrass, Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 237.
Juan Luis Vives, Introductio ad sapientiam; Satellitium sive symbola; Epistolae duae de ratione studii puerilis (Antwerp: Merten de Keyser, 1530),
Jaime Goodrich, “The Dedicatory Preface to Mary Roper Clark Basset’s Translation of Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History.” English Literary Renaissance 40 (2010), 308.
Thomas More, The Works of Sir Thomas More, Ed. William Rastell (London: John Cawood, John Waly, and Richard Tottell, 1557). STC 18076.
Philip Gerrard, A godly inuectiue in the defence of the Gospel (London: Richard Grafton, 1547). STC 11797.
See Whitney R. D. Jones, The Mid-Tudor Crisis, 1539–1563 (New York: Harper & Row, 1973).
See David Loades, The Mid-Tudor Crisis, 1545–1565 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1992)
and Jennifer Loach and Robert Tittler, eds., The Mid-Tudor Polity, c.1540–1560 (London: Macmillan, 1980).
See John Matusiak, “Mid-Tudor England: Years of Trauma and Survival,” History Review, 52 (2005), 31–36.
Mary Anne Everett Wood, ed., Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies of Great Britain, From the Commencement of the Twelfth Century to the Close of Reign of Queen Mary, Vol. III (London: Henry Colburn, 1846), 255–256.
John Christopherson, An exhortation to all menne to take hede and beware of rebellion: wherein are set forth the causes, that commonly e moue men to rebellion, and that no cause is there, that ought to moue any man there vnto, with a discourse of the miserable effectes, that ensue therof and of the wretched ende, that all rebelles comme to, moste necessary to be redde in this seditiouse and troublsome tyme (London: John Cawood, 1554). STC 5207.
William B. Turnbull, ed., Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Mary, 1553–1558 (London: Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, 1861), p. 12, 66, 117, 165.
Julia Boffey, “From Manuscript to Print: Continuity and Change,” in A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476–1558, ed. Vincent Gillespie and Susan Powell (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2014), 20–21.
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Schutte, V. (2015). Manuscript Dedications to Mary. In: Mary I and the Art of Book Dedications. Queenship and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137541284_5
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