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
Salisbury Cathedral Library donatory label (1899) with inscription “Ex libris viri dilectissimi Thomae Lvck Kingsbvry A M Prebendarii de Vffcvlme qui obdormivit in pace iv die Dec A S MDCCCXCIX D D Helena Maria filia heres Bibliothecae Sarisbvriensis”. "Ecclesiae B.V.M." added in manuscript in gap between “Bibliothecae” and "Sarisbvriensis".
Provenance
Bookplate of Thomas Luck Kingsbury, with armorial crest.
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (19th century) with 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal and inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.”
Provenance
Inscription on upper endleaf: "T. L. Kingsbury".
Binding
Binder's ticket on lower pastedown: "Bound by Jas. Truscott & Son, Suffolk Lane, London EC".
Subject
Prayer books
Added entry--name
Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, 1815-1881 author.
Added entry--name
Kingsbury, Thomas Luck, 1822-1899 former owner.
Added entry--name
Kingsbury, Helen Mary, 1857-1929 donor.
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.
B13548
UKSbSC
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