Henry VIII's dissolution enforcer stashed Catholic manuscript—its lost pages have just been rediscovered
3 sources·Updated September 16, 2026
Catholic manuscript discovery
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- Phys.org Science·8h agoHenry VIII's dissolution enforcer stashed Catholic manuscript—its lost pages have just been rediscovered
Sir John Gage, a key figure in Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, saved a dangerous Catholic book from likely destruction, a new study suggests. The identification of six lost pages of a medieval bestseller—illicitly prized by Catholics in the Reformation—as belonging…
Read at Phys.org Science → - Scientific American·8h agoMissing 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
Read at Scientific American → - Independent Science·8h agoHenry 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
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