Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures ix
4. Abbreviations xii
5. Preface xv
6. 1 Introduction 1
7. 2 Robert and Thomas Wakefield: A Biographical Sketch 8
8. 3 Robert Wakefield’s Inaugural Orations in Context 34
9. 4 The Remarkable Hebraism of Robert Wakefield 50
10. 5 Robert Wakefield and Arabic 70
11. 6 Robert Wakefield and the King’s Great Matter 86
12. 7 The “Ezra Scroll” of Bologna in the Crossfire of the Royal Divorce: John Fisher, Robert Wakefield and an Erased Text 111
13. 8 “My Silent Teachers” : Hebrew Manuscripts as the Source of Robert Wakefield’s Hebraism 132
14. 9 Robert Wakefield’s Manuscript Collections and the English Monastic Libraries: A Parallel to John Leland’s Mission 167
15. 10. Books Owned or Annotated by the Wakefield Brothers 180
16. 11. “Great Mountains Suspended from Every Single Letter”: Thomas Wakefield and His Hebrew Bibles 198
17. 12 Thomas Wakefield’s “Antiquissimus Codex” and San Marco’s Musivum Novissimum 237
18. Appendix 1 Robert Wakefield, “Oratio Oxonii habita in Collegio Regio” (1532) 271
19. Appendix 2 A Hebrew Responsum about Levirate Marriage (1530) 280
20. Bibliography 287
21. Contributors 313
22. Index of Manuscripts 315
23. Indexes of Printed Books 317
24. General Index 323