Missing pages from a 15th-century Catholic manuscript have been uncovered in an archive in Sussex, linking the fragments to a larger collection held 3,000 miles away at Yale University. The newly found texts reside at The Keep, a historic archive in Brighton, and are believed to be part of Nicholas Love’s *Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ*, a devotional work that was widely circulated during the late medieval period.

Scholars researching the manuscript have identified the missing pages as a significant addition to the known volume, which had been incomplete until this discovery. The manuscript’s survival is particularly notable given the widespread destruction of religious texts during the English Reformation, when many such works were systematically destroyed.

Research indicates that Sir John Gage, a Tudor courtier active in the 16th century, may have played a key role in preserving the manuscript. It is thought that Gage deliberately safeguarded this and possibly other religious works from confiscation or burning, an effort that allowed these pages to endure through a tumultuous historical period marked by religious and political upheaval.

The discovery offers fresh insights into the preservation of religious literature in Tudor England and opens new avenues for study on the dissemination and survival of devotional texts from this era. Archives at The Keep continue to be a valuable resource for historians and researchers seeking to uncover the cultural and religious history of the period. The connection between the Sussex fragments and the Yale volume underscores the global importance of such finds in piecing together the histories of medieval manuscripts.