[BIBLE].

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.Attractively bound and in remarkable condition. The design with a composite gilt centrepiece and gilt ruling of dentelles was fashionable in England in the 2nd quarter of the C17 (e.g., BL .Add MS 71447. or .Davis42.). In particular, the gold-tooling is here reminiscent of bindings by Daniel Boyse of Cambridge (c.1624), e.g., Henry Davis Gift II, 74. The above and those produced by Boyse generally bear a flat spine. The present may thus be the output of one of several binders all operating in Cambridge in the 2.nd. quarter of the C17 (see Foot, pp.59-75). .The first work is a very. early. Jacobean. edition of the .Book of Common Prayer - t.he first single manual of worship in a vernacular language directed to be used universally by, and common to, both priest and people .[. .]. one of the greatest of all liturgical rationalizations. . (PMM). - in the Hampton Court version, from which it differs in the double column layout. An edition much rarer than the first of .1603, this version .introduced .revisions such as .prayers for the royal family and the sacramental section of the Catechism. . (Griffiths, p.8). The.se revisions - which were approved at the Hampton Court conference, held in response to the Millenary Petition in January 1604, presided over by James I and attended by major Puritan divines - include .a new prayer for Queen Anne and Prince Henry, as well as others (e.g., for rain, peace or deliverance from the plague); .changes .to rubrics for private baptism; a new s

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