Researchers Uncover Major Piece of Tudor History with Pages of Banned Book

Researchers uncover major piece of Tudor history with pages of banned book

A senior Tudor official who helped dismantle England’s monastic system secretly protected banned Catholic manuscript during the Reformation.

Missing pages of priceless missing Henry VIII–era manuscript finally found

The pages come from a copy of Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ that once belonged to John Gage, an enforcer in Henry VIII’s court and a key figure in the historical dissolution of the monasteries

Henry VIII enforcer ‘secretly saved Catholic book he was meant to destroy’

New research suggests Sir John Gage, who remained a Catholic throughout the Reformation, shielded a manuscript of Nicholas Love’s early 15th-century Mirror Of The Blessed Life Of Jesus Christ