Main entry--corporate name
Church of England
Uniform title
Book of common prayer. 1636
Title
Fac-simile of the black-letter prayer-book : containing manuscript alterations and additions made in the year 1661, "Out of which was fairly written" the Book of Common Prayer subscribed, December 20. A.D. 1661, by the convocations of Canterbury and York, and annexed to the Act of Uniformity, 13 & 14 Car. II., C. 4, A.D. 1662. / Photo-zincographed at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, (Major-General, Sir Henry James, R.E., F.R.S., &c., Director-General) and published for the Royal Commission on Ritual, by authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.
Imprint
London : Oxford : Cambridge : Longman and Co., Paternoster Row, and Basil M. Pickering, 196, Piccadilly ; Parker and Co. ; Macmillan and Co., 1871.
Physical description
[12], 514 pages ; 42 cm
Note
A facsimile of the black-letter prayer book of 1636 with marginal manuscript notes and alterations from which the copy attached to the Act of Uniformity, 13 and 14 Car. II., was written.
Note
The certification is signed in facsimile by Henry James, Director General of the Ordnance Survey, and William Basevi Sanders, Assistant Keeper of Her Majesty's Records.
Note
The introductory essay is signed A.P. Stanley, Dean of Westminster.
Provenance
Armorial-style bookplate of George David Boyle, with motto "Dominus providebit" and date "1895".
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (19th century) with 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal and inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.”
Copy-specific note
Tipped in at end of volume:"The Letter of Geste, or Gheast, Bishop of Rochester, who penned the XXVIIIth Article, to Cecil, Secretary to Queen Elizabeth", which disposes of the issues in the case of Sheppard v. Bennett. 1p.; London: Church Printing Company, [s.d].
Subject
Prayer books
Added entry--name
Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, 1815-1881 author.
Added entry--name
Boyle, George David, 1828-1901 former owner.
Added entry--name
Great Britain Ordnance Survey.
Added entry--name
Great Britain Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Rubrics, Orders, and Directions for Regulating the Course and Conduct of Public Worship, &c, According to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland.
B13527
UKSbSC
20211102144705.9