Research | The Wolsey Manuscripts

Introduction from the President of Magdalen College and the Dean of Christ Church

Wolsey Symposium - Academic Roundtable Discussion

The roundtable held in the Upper Library of Christ Church, Oxford on the 12th of May 2017, was organised to coincide with the launch of this website, an online platform created to encourage the study of two manuscript books commissioned by Cardinal Wolsey in his later career. Thanks to the Mirador plugin, images from the two volumes in question, Oxford, Christ Church, MS 101 and Oxford, Magdalen College, Lat.

Detail of the binding of Magdalen ms lat 223

The Binding of the Wolsey Gospel Lectionary

Professor Mirjam M. Foot

The manuscript gospel book for Cardinal Wolsey is bound in brown calf over pasteboard, tooled in blind and gold. The binding measures 415 x 310 x 35mm. and the pasteboards are 5-6mm thick.