Book of common prayer [manuscript], 1576.

Book of common prayer [manuscript], 1576.

iii, 66 leaves : coats of arms ; 21 x 15 cm

Copy made by Robert Heasse, curate of Saint Botolph without Aldgate. Includes 2 poems.

Original binding bears the pre-1603 royal coat of arms and the initials R.P. On the inside of the front and back covers of the original binding each bears a black and white albumen print of a mother and her two daughters from the late 19th or early 20th century.

Ruled borders with varying ink designs including rosettes and a few borders colored yellow, red or green. The border on leaf 23v contains the initials of the owner, "R H," and the border on leaf 24r contains the initials "S A," perhaps the book's scribe, as well as "1576" "God," depictions of three keyholes and a quill nib.

Poems listed in the Folger index of first lines.

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Purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Folger at the Leighton Library sale (Sotheby's, 14 November 1918), lot 623.

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006-2007. Technologies of Writing in the Age of Print.

Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 812.1

Church of England. Book of common prayer.

Great Britain -- England.

V.a.174

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