The boke of common praier, and administracion of the sacramentes, and other rites and ceremonies in the Churche of Englande.
Church of England
Category
Books
Date
1552
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3227008
Summary
Bibliographic description
[364] p. ; fol. Former shelfmark: BC.sh.2. Running number: 6885. Wanting two final leaves Cc9,10. Leaves B3,4 bound in wrong order: B4,3. With manuscript alterations in English to the printed text for use in the reign of Queen Mary on leaves A6r, B4v (state prayers for Edward VI changed to "Marie ye first"), S2v, S4v, T4r, T6r (in Latin), U1v (in Latin), U2r-U5r (in English and Latin), and Y3r (in Latin). Manuscript correction on leaf P2r to read "The xxiii Sondiae" (printed as 'The xxii Sondiae'), with "23" also written in the margin. Provenance: manuscript initial on verso of second sheet of printed waste at front facing title page: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscription at head of title page: "liber Robert Boyd ..." (last part illegible, the whole crossed-out in thick ink). Same manuscript inscription in sixteenth-century hand at foot of title page and on verso of leaf Cc8, both scribbled-over in ink and illegible. Binding: sixteenth-century blind-tooled calf over wooden boards; sewn on four cords; four raised bands; framework of intersecting blind thin thick thin fillets, middle panel containing blind roll pattern of heads in medallions between foliage and metalwork ornamentation signed with initials RB -- Oldham attributed this roll to a London binder, ca. 1550-1580; evidence of two pairs of clasps (missing) hinging on the upper cover; single blind fillet along board edges; rebacked and repaired in tan calf with original spine overlaid; blind fillet decoration at head and tail of spine and either side of raised bands; gilt title 'Common Prayer 1552' on tan leather label on spine; new endleaves; pencil note on front pastedown: "repaired at Cambridge 1955". Strip of manuscript waste at front folded around printed waste sheet: vellum, fifteenth-century[?], blue and red decorative initial letters. Sheet of printed waste as front endpapers: folio, folded in half, black letter, two columns, printed in red and black, running title 'In festo o[mn]i[u]m sanctoru[m]', leaf numbered 'fo. clxx', signature 'AA,ij.'; probably from an unidentified fifteenth or sixteenth-century edition of the Sarum Missal.
Makers and roles
Church of England, organisation Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) Archbishop of Canterbury., editor Richard Grafton (d.1572?), printer