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The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments : and other rites and ceremonies of the Church of England, with the Psalter or Psalmes of David.

Accession number
PML 77310.2
Published
[Cambridge?] : Printed by the Printers to the Universitie of Cambridge., 1637.
Credit line
Gift of H. P. Kraus, 1976.
Notes
Signatures: A⁴, A-E⁸.
Black letter, 2-column.
PML copy missing leaves 1-4, with several leaves damaged and reinforced at gutter.
PML copy previously bound with a copy of the New Testament (STC 2326), now at Harvard, Houghton Library.
Description
[88] pages ; 23 cm (4to)
Provenance
John Bunyan, signature and Elizabeth B. (perhaps Bunyan's daughter (d. 1654) or second wife (approximately 1641-1692)), signatures (title page of Psalmes); Mrs. Claflin (of Boston), purchased from Ellis & White, cat. 29, no. 145, for £21.0.0, 14 May 1873 (invoice pasted to front pastedown); Mrs. Frederic Keyes, of Newtonville, MA (typed letter from Houghton Library offering to purchase Bunyan's Psalms and Book of Common Prayer, 28 April 1950), laid in box with book; Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of H.P. Kraus, 1976.
Binding
18th-century English brown calf over paper boards; rebacked and renewed with modern paper endleaves and brown velvet chemise.
Classification
Department