The booke of the common prayer and administracion of the sacramentes, and other rites and ceremonies of the churche: after the vse of the Churche of England.
Church of England
Category
Books
Date
1549
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3048918
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], clvii, [1] leaves ; fol. Former shelfmark: BC.sh.2. Running number: 6884. Leaves C3-6 (fols. 19-22) in wrong order thus: C5, C4, C6, C3 (fols. xxii, xx, xxi, xix). Bifolium containing leaves N2 and 7 (fols. xcviii and ciii) in wrong order, quire N thus: N7, N3, N4, N5, N6, N2 (fols. ciii, xcix, c, ci, cii, xcviii). Leaf F2 torn across middle of printed text, with paper repair in gutter margin. Outer margin of leaf I6 torn, with loss of some marginal text. Outer margin of leaves K3, O6 and S8 with paper repairs. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. The four leaves XIX-XXII. are wrong folded, as also the six leaves XCVIII-CIII" [i.e. catalogue code and collation note written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript signature on either side of title on title page: "Rob[er]t Paulling" [? inscription runs into woodcut border and becomes indistinct]. Manuscript doodle of one of the faces from the title page border on the title page, plus manuscript roman numerals at foot of title page. Manuscript inscriptions in illegible sixteenth-century hand at foot of 'A table for the ordre of the Psalmes, to be sayd at Matins and Euensong' on leaf A4 recto. Manuscript annotation in margin of leaf D1 recto: "Marcke.xii.c.". Pen marks on leaves G5 verso, G6 recto, K4 recto, N1 verso, N2 recto and N7. Manuscript inscriptions at foot of leaf V10 recto, some in English and some in Latin, all in sixteenth-century hand(s), including "God save the quenes grace. Amen". Many manuscript inscriptions on leaf V10 verso, English or Latin, all in sixteenth-century hand(s), including the initials "IL" and one possibly with a family name "LeVins". Manuscript booksellers'[?] code on rear pastedown: "X-m". Binding: seventeenth-century full mottled calf; sewn onto six raised bands; gilt dash roll pattern along board edges; rebacked (nineteenth-century?) in calf, with original spine overlaid; remnants of original gilt title label on spine: '[S]ervis [b]oo[k] [Ed]wa[rd] .6.'; blue marbled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Church of England, organisation Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) Archbishop of Canterbury., editor Edward Whitchurch, printer