Negotiating Faith in the Sixteenth Century: Edmund Horde's Personal Notebook in Trinity College Dublin 352

Abstract This article will demonstrate the intersectional nature of manuscript and print, as well as the importance of the printing press to Recusant readers. The article will consider TCD 352 as a manuscript or notebook for whom the material and immaterial nature of the book changes as both the Counter‐Reformation movement intensifies and the anthologies and commonplace books proliferate, exploring the ways in which manuscript culture allows for adaptation, even of printed sources. Finally, the article will give particular attention to the Thomas More material copied in the manuscript, providing evidence that it was copied from the 1557 Collection by Rastell in a way that indicates a certain reverence for the materiality of that published work amongst Recusant readers.