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John Capgrave

British historian and theologian · Writers · Lived 1393 to 1464 · aged 71

John Capgrave was an English historian and scholastic theologian.

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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

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

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Lived 1393 to 1464 · aged 71

Writers born in the 1390s 6

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Carlo Marsuppini43.6 of 100

Gö Lotsawa Zhönnu-pel36.5 of 100