The Library at Lanhydrock House and the Court of King Henry VIII

This talk will discuss three books in the library at Lanhydrock House associated with the court of King Henry VIII. The first two are manuscripts deriving from his library at Westminster. Containing works by William of Ockham (d. 1347), they represent part of the campaign leading to the break with Rome in 1534 and one has annotations relating to this campaign. The third is the unique printed copy of an epitalamion written by Jean Mallard, ‘orator in the French tongue’ to Henry VIII to celebrate the marriage of Francis, duc de Bar, to Christine of Denmark, niece of Charles V, on 10 July 1541. It seems likely that this book also comes from the royal library and got to Lanhydrock by the same route as the other two, but how it came to Henry VIII’s library is somewhat of a mystery since Mallard seems to have left the service of the English king by 1541.

Suitable for
14-15
16-17
18+

Admission
£ 4 Members , £7 Non-Members , FREE for 14-18 yr olds and the unemployed

Website
http://www.royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/lecture-series

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/sw000132?id=EVENT577687