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John Capgrave

Detail of an historiated initial from John Capgrave's Commentary on Exodus (c. 1440) showing Capgrave presenting his book to Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. It is one of three remaining volumes of Gloucester's original bequest to the Bodleian Library at Oxford University

John Capgrave (21 April 1393 – 12 August 1464) was an English historian, hagiographer and scholastic theologian, remembered chiefly for Nova Legenda Angliae (New Reading from England).[1] This was the first comprehensive collection of lives of the English saints.

  1. ^ Edward Maunde Thompson (1887). "Capgrave, John". Dictionary of National Biography. 9. London. pp. 20–22.

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