HM 00182, Life of Cardinal Wolsey

San Marino, Huntington Library, HM 00182. Text(s): Life of Cardinal Wolsey. Description: ff. 126 - Bound, s. XVII, in English brown calf over pasteboard, with the name "Henrie Farleigh" stamped in gold on both covers. - The first owner may have been Henry Farley, whose name is stamped on the covers, possibly to be identified with the Henry Farley listed in the British Library catalogue of printed books with 3 titles pertaining to St. Paul's, 1616-22; see W. Dugdale, The History of St. Paul's Cathedral in London (London 1658) p. 134 for a reference to Henry Farley engaged in raising funds to repair the church. Owned by Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk (1765-1842), and sold by him as a duplicate to Samuel Weller Singer (1783-1858) before 1825. Thorpe Cat. (1836) n. 201 to Sir Thomas Phillipps; his MS 9796. Phillipps sale, Sotheby's, 6 June 1898, lot 1145 to Baker. In A Catalogue of Shakespeareana (London 1899) 1:73-74 n. 147, a collection formed by the London bookseller J. Pearson; the collection sold in 1906 to Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935) of Providence, Rhode Island. Sold by Perry to A. S. W. Rosenbach in 1919. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown. - C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). De Ricci, 62. Part 1: ff. 1-126v. Description: - Paper - A pot and a scroll-shield emblazoned with a shepherd's crook and a powder horn; neither watermark in Briquet or in Heawood - 178 x 281 mm - 1.