Lot 29
More (Sir Thomas).- Roper (William) The life and death of Sir Tho More knight sometime Lo: Chancellor of England... 1535, manuscript in Secretary hand, disbound, [England], [c. 1630].
Hammer Price: £2,800
Description
More (Sir Thomas [St Thomas More], Lord Chancellor, humanist, and martyr, 1478-1535).- Roper (William, lawyer and biographer, 1495x8-1578) The life and death of Sir Tho More knight sometime Lo: Chancellor of England... 1535, manuscript in Secretary hand, 58pp. & conjugate blank, drophead title, first f. two tears in margins, soiled, last 4pp. large stain, numerous other small stains, original stitching, disbound, watermark Bunch two pillars with grapes, folio, [cf. BL Harley 6253], [England], [c. 1630].
⁂ Thomas More on the Act of Supremacy. "... this Indictment is grounded upon an Act of p[ar]liam[en]t directly repugnant to the Lawe of god."
An early 17th century copy of the life of St Thomas More, written by his son-in-law, William Roper for Nicholas Harpsfield's biography, The life and death of Sr Thomas Moore, knight. The biography was written during Queen Mary I's reign and dedicated to William Roper, but it was not published until 1932.
"... Roper's life of More. This is an attractive personal memoir, marked by candour, modesty, and strong loyalty. It is based explicitly on personal recollection, which, however, sometimes needs correction. Roper's portrait of More as a model lord chancellor has been modified in detail by later scholarship, and there is a serious anachronism in his last paragraph (fully discussed by R. W. Chambers in Harpsfield, 353-5). But the book remains an English classic, the earliest personal biography in the language. It has also left its mark on all subsequent writing on More." - Oxford DNB.
Nicholas Harpsfield (1519-75), religious controversialist and historian.
Description
More (Sir Thomas [St Thomas More], Lord Chancellor, humanist, and martyr, 1478-1535).- Roper (William, lawyer and biographer, 1495x8-1578) The life and death of Sir Tho More knight sometime Lo: Chancellor of England... 1535, manuscript in Secretary hand, 58pp. & conjugate blank, drophead title, first f. two tears in margins, soiled, last 4pp. large stain, numerous other small stains, original stitching, disbound, watermark Bunch two pillars with grapes, folio, [cf. BL Harley 6253], [England], [c. 1630].
⁂ Thomas More on the Act of Supremacy. "... this Indictment is grounded upon an Act of p[ar]liam[en]t directly repugnant to the Lawe of god."
An early 17th century copy of the life of St Thomas More, written by his son-in-law, William Roper for Nicholas Harpsfield's biography, The life and death of Sr Thomas Moore, knight. The biography was written during Queen Mary I's reign and dedicated to William Roper, but it was not published until 1932.
"... Roper's life of More. This is an attractive personal memoir, marked by candour, modesty, and strong loyalty. It is based explicitly on personal recollection, which, however, sometimes needs correction. Roper's portrait of More as a model lord chancellor has been modified in detail by later scholarship, and there is a serious anachronism in his last paragraph (fully discussed by R. W. Chambers in Harpsfield, 353-5). But the book remains an English classic, the earliest personal biography in the language. It has also left its mark on all subsequent writing on More." - Oxford DNB.
Nicholas Harpsfield (1519-75), religious controversialist and historian.
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