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1604 London With Provenance
LIBER PRECUM PUBLICARUM
LATIN BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
Seu ministerii ecclesiasticae administrationis sacramentorum, aliorumque rituum, & caeremoniarum in Ecclesia Anglicana.
A scarce and appealing Jacobean issue of the Latin Book of Common Prayer, printed in London by John Norton in 1604.
The Liber precum publicarum provided an officially sanctioned Latin form of Church of England worship for learned institutions in which Latin remained the customary language of scholarship and devotion. First published in 1560 following requests associated with Eton, Winchester, Oxford and Cambridge, it carried the English Reformation settlement into the language of European humanist learning.
The present 1604 John Norton issue, STC 16429, is a title-page reissue of the London 1594 edition, retaining the corresponding earlier printing and colophon. The volume includes, from fol. 188, the separately titled Liber Psalmorum Davidis Prophetae et Regis, translated from the Hebrew by Sebastian Münster and dated 1594.
The principal title is enclosed within an elaborate architectural woodcut border incorporating personifications of the Seven Liberal Arts: Grammar, Rhetoric, Dialectic, Arithmetic, Music, Astronomy and Geometry. Decorative woodcut initials appear throughout, and the Münster Psalter title bears a substantial woodcut device.
By Church of England
Provenance: Early ownership inscription dated 1742.
Unidentified institutional or library stamps to the title and preliminary material.
Format: Vellum, Octavo (Standard) (8vo 6 × 9 in 152 × 229 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Language: Latin
Published By: John Norton, London
Condition Report:
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Very Good - A sound and characterful early seventeenth-century service book in 17th-century plain vellum.
Binding with expected age-soiling, rubbing, staining and handling marks, including darker staining to the lower board. Vellum naturally bowed and worn at the corners and extremities, with faint early manuscript titling to the spine. Sewing and portions of the binding structure are visible at the inner hinges.
Architectural woodcut title-page border depicting the Seven Liberal Arts; woodcut initials throughout; woodcut device to the 1594 Psalter title. The 1594 Münster Psalter title at fol. 188 is present. Title, preliminaries, main text, Psalter and terminal leaves present.
Fragments of earlier rubricated Gothic-text waste are visible beneath the pastedown and have been employed as binding guards, adding considerable interest as evidence of the book’s original construction.
Title page present, with an early ownership inscription in brown ink at the head, previously catalogued as “Henrici Sum Esckmini: 1742”, the surname difficult to read with certainty. An unidentified circular institutional or library stamp appears at the foot of the title, partly affecting the woodcut border, with evidence of partial erasure. Further old inscriptions, stamps and later bibliographical notes occur on the preliminary and end leaves.
Text with general age-toning, occasional marks from use and areas of light waterstaining or marginal discolouration. The printed impression remains strong and legible, with the woodcut material presenting clearly.
Leaves I2 and Z2 have old paper repairs to their outer corners. The repair to I2 is confined to the lower blank margin. The repair to Z2 approaches and partly overlaps the upper printed area; the text remains legible, with no apparent loss of letters.
Binding:
Vellum, octavo (8vo approx. 6 1⁄2 × 4 3⁄8 in / 165 × 110 mm). The 1604 Norton reissue is approximately 16.5cm × 11 cm, with 28 unnumbered and 299 numbered leaves.
Collation: 28 unnumbered leaves, 299 numbered leaves; title, preliminaries, Psalter, and final leaves; two parts in one.
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
References:
STC 16429
Burmeister 136
Author Bio: The Church of England’s Liber precum publicarum was an officially sanctioned Latin prayer book intended especially for institutions in which Latin remained the language of education and learned worship.
The translation has traditionally been associated with Walter Haddon, Tudor humanist, civil lawyer and advocate of Protestant reform. Recent scholarship notes that, although Haddon was well qualified to undertake the work, his role is not explicitly documented in the surviving book or associated archival records.
Synopsis: A Latin form of the Church of England’s reformed liturgy, containing the offices, collects, Communion service, occasional rites and other ceremonies, together with Sebastian Münster’s Latin Psalter.
The work stands at the meeting point of liturgy, education and confessional statecraft. It is not a survival of the medieval Latin rite, but a Protestant service book presented in the international scholarly language of Renaissance Europe.
The compact octavo format made it suitable for practical institutional and personal use. The wear, inscriptions, stamps, repairs and surviving binding waste give this copy particular value as a historical object: a book intended to be handled, consulted and used rather than preserved as a ceremonial luxury.
SKU: BTETM0001743
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
1604 London With Provenance
LIBER PRECUM PUBLICARUM
LATIN BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
Seu ministerii ecclesiasticae administrationis sacramentorum, aliorumque rituum, & caeremoniarum in Ecclesia Anglicana.
A scarce and appealing Jacobean issue of the Latin Book of Common Prayer, printed in London by John Norton in 1604.
The Liber precum publicarum provided an officially sanctioned Latin form of Church of England worship for learned institutions in which Latin remained the customary language of scholarship and devotion. First published in 1560 following requests associated with Eton, Winchester, Oxford and Cambridge, it carried the English Reformation settlement into the language of European humanist learning.
The present 1604 John Norton issue, STC 16429, is a title-page reissue of the London 1594 edition, retaining the corresponding earlier printing and colophon. The volume includes, from fol. 188, the separately titled Liber Psalmorum Davidis Prophetae et Regis, translated from the Hebrew by Sebastian Münster and dated 1594.
The principal title is enclosed within an elaborate architectural woodcut border incorporating personifications of the Seven Liberal Arts: Grammar, Rhetoric, Dialectic, Arithmetic, Music, Astronomy and Geometry. Decorative woodcut initials appear throughout, and the Münster Psalter title bears a substantial woodcut device.
By Church of England
Provenance: Early ownership inscription dated 1742.
Unidentified institutional or library stamps to the title and preliminary material.
Format: Vellum, Octavo (Standard) (8vo 6 × 9 in 152 × 229 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Language: Latin
Published By: John Norton, London
Condition Report:
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Very Good - A sound and characterful early seventeenth-century service book in 17th-century plain vellum.
Binding with expected age-soiling, rubbing, staining and handling marks, including darker staining to the lower board. Vellum naturally bowed and worn at the corners and extremities, with faint early manuscript titling to the spine. Sewing and portions of the binding structure are visible at the inner hinges.
Architectural woodcut title-page border depicting the Seven Liberal Arts; woodcut initials throughout; woodcut device to the 1594 Psalter title. The 1594 Münster Psalter title at fol. 188 is present. Title, preliminaries, main text, Psalter and terminal leaves present.
Fragments of earlier rubricated Gothic-text waste are visible beneath the pastedown and have been employed as binding guards, adding considerable interest as evidence of the book’s original construction.
Title page present, with an early ownership inscription in brown ink at the head, previously catalogued as “Henrici Sum Esckmini: 1742”, the surname difficult to read with certainty. An unidentified circular institutional or library stamp appears at the foot of the title, partly affecting the woodcut border, with evidence of partial erasure. Further old inscriptions, stamps and later bibliographical notes occur on the preliminary and end leaves.
Text with general age-toning, occasional marks from use and areas of light waterstaining or marginal discolouration. The printed impression remains strong and legible, with the woodcut material presenting clearly.
Leaves I2 and Z2 have old paper repairs to their outer corners. The repair to I2 is confined to the lower blank margin. The repair to Z2 approaches and partly overlaps the upper printed area; the text remains legible, with no apparent loss of letters.
Binding:
Vellum, octavo (8vo approx. 6 1⁄2 × 4 3⁄8 in / 165 × 110 mm). The 1604 Norton reissue is approximately 16.5cm × 11 cm, with 28 unnumbered and 299 numbered leaves.
Collation: 28 unnumbered leaves, 299 numbered leaves; title, preliminaries, Psalter, and final leaves; two parts in one.
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
References:
STC 16429
Burmeister 136
Author Bio: The Church of England’s Liber precum publicarum was an officially sanctioned Latin prayer book intended especially for institutions in which Latin remained the language of education and learned worship.
The translation has traditionally been associated with Walter Haddon, Tudor humanist, civil lawyer and advocate of Protestant reform. Recent scholarship notes that, although Haddon was well qualified to undertake the work, his role is not explicitly documented in the surviving book or associated archival records.
Synopsis: A Latin form of the Church of England’s reformed liturgy, containing the offices, collects, Communion service, occasional rites and other ceremonies, together with Sebastian Münster’s Latin Psalter.
The work stands at the meeting point of liturgy, education and confessional statecraft. It is not a survival of the medieval Latin rite, but a Protestant service book presented in the international scholarly language of Renaissance Europe.
The compact octavo format made it suitable for practical institutional and personal use. The wear, inscriptions, stamps, repairs and surviving binding waste give this copy particular value as a historical object: a book intended to be handled, consulted and used rather than preserved as a ceremonial luxury.
SKU: BTETM0001743
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
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