Main entry--corporate name
Church of England
Uniform title
Book of common prayer
Title
The booke of common prayer. : with the Psalter or Psalmes of Dauid, of that translation which is appointed to be vsed in churches.
Imprint
Imprinted at London: : by Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie: and by the assignes of Iohn Bill., 1630..
Physical description
[92] p. ; 22 cm [4to]
Note
Signatures: A4 2A8 B10 C-E⁸.
Note
Title page and leaves A2-4 printed in red and black.
Note
Printed in two columns, black letter.
Note
State prayers (as in "the Letanie" on leaf 2A3v): Queene Mary, Fredericke the Prince Elector Palatine, and the Lady Elizabeth his wife, with their princely issue. [i.e. before birth of Prince Charles, 29 May 1630].
Citation/references note
ESTC, S123192
Citation/references note
STC (2nd ed.), 16380.9
Citation/references note
Not in Griffiths, Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer.
Provenance
Bookplate: Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (20th century) with design based on the Dean and Chapter seal, and inscription “Sarvm Cathedral Library.”
Binding
Seventeenth-century calf over wooden boards, sewn on four supports (rebacked and repaired in 19th century, with old calf replaced over new wood). Panelled design of decorative rolls. Both boards with brass centre-piece (lozenge-shaped with rose) and heavy brass corner-pieces with bosses; traces of brass clasps. Spine lettered with 19th-century list of contents (not accurate): "Holy Bible/1630/Common Prayer /1552 /Psalmes/Sternhold & Hopkins".
Copy-specific note
Bound with: (a) J. Speed, The genealogies recorded in the sacred scriptures [1632-35?]; (b) The Holy Bible (1630); (d) The whole book of psalmes (1632).
Copy-specific note
On final blank page: 4 five-line verses of religious poetry, beginning: '[...]i come before my angry god', signed: Mary Lepage.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: wanting title page and all of first gathering. First extant leaf = 2A1, with drop-head title: The booke of common prayer.
Subject
Church of England
Subject
Prayers Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Lepage, Mary, active 17th century former owner.
Added entry--name
Barker, Robert, -1645 printer.
Added entry--name
Assigns of John Bill printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
B12870
UKSbSC
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