The Libraries of King Henry VIII: an Update of the Westminster Inventory of 1542

Katherine Parr's Giftbooks, Henry VIII's Marginalia, and the Display of Royal Power and Piety

“… 22 Henry paid twelve pence for “a little Psalter, taking out of one book and setting in another in the same place and for gorgeous binding of the same book.” Henry paid a lot more for larger books. He paid six shillings for a Latin New Testament and English and Latin psalter “bound back to back in white leather, gorgeously gilted on the leather”: Carley, 2000, 231.…”

“…One of these “books of Psalms” might be the “book of Psalms covered with crimson velvet and garnished with gold” in a list of books delivered to the Tower after Thomas Seymour's attainder. James, 1999, 207, 437; Carley, 2000, lxiii, 277.…”

“…15. The bill is printed in Rose-Troup, 42–43; Carley, 2000, lxi–lxii. Both transcriptions omit one line item for “an other of the same books printed in fine vellum.”…”

“… 31 Rose-Troup, 43; James, 1999, 312n69; Carley, 2000, lxii. The first extant copies of the Prayers or Meditations are from 2 June 1545.…”