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The Determinations of the moste famous and mooste excellent vniuersities of Italy and Fraunce : that it is so vnlefull for a man to marie his brothers wyfe, that the pope hath no power to dispence therwith.

Accession number
PML 17976
Published
London : Thomas Berthelet, [1531]
Notes
A translation, possibly by Thomas Cranmer, of "Gravissimae atque exactissimae ... censurae," 1530. The work is a collection of university "opinions" and a long treatise on the validity of Henry VIII's marriage to Catharine of Aragon. The treatise was probably written by Edward Fox, Bishop of Hereford, with the help of Nicholas de Burgo and John Stokesley, Bishop of London.
Imprint taken from colophon: Imprinted at London in the house of Thomas Berthelet printer to the kinges most noble grace. the.7.day of Nouembre.
Brown russia binding with arms of Michael Wodhull (title mounted).
Description
154 leaves ; 16 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Notes on fly-leaf in various hands.
Provenance
Michael Wodhull, arms on cover; Charles Longuet Higgins, bookplate.
Classification
Department