18TH CENTURY - LATIN PRAYER BOOK [ PARSELL, T. REVISED BY ] .

Liturgia: Seu Liber Precum Communium, Et Administrationis Sacramentorum, Aliorumque Rituum & Ceremoniarum In Ecclesia Anglicana Receptus: Itemque Forma & Modus Creandi, Ordinandi , & Consecrandi Episcopos, Presbyteros, & Diaconos...

Londoni: Typis G. Boyer, Impensis R. & J . Bonwicke, J. & B. Sprint, B. Took, T. Ward. & J. Osborne M DCC XX. [ 1720 ] . 0. "Editio tertia prioribus longe emendatior, tribusque formulis auctior." A very good original full leather binding. 12mo. 6.50" x 4.00" x 1.25". Plain dark brown calf. Corners bumped and strengthened. Spine with five raised bands. Previous owner's signature and doodles to the front endpaper: "Edward Maurice Coll. Jesu. Oxon."A. J. Richardson". Frontis engraving with later crude colouring, representing the interior of a church. On the left the pulpit, reading-desk, and clerk's desk, a clergyman saying prayers, the congregation kneeling on the marble floor (one has a kneeling-cushion) ; in the background the altar, above it the symbolic triangle, surrounded by cherubs, with the words; "Agite, veneremur supplices. flexis ante Dominum Creatorem nostrum genibus. Psal. xcv. 6." Printed title page (small hole repaired). Dedication ends; "Tho. Parsel. Dabam a Schola Mercat. Sciff. Londoni, Kalendis Quintilibus." Printed title. Clean Latin text throughout. A very good copy of an 18th century prayer book. * Referenced by ESTC T140400 / Griffiths - Latin, No. 19 ** "Thomas Parsell (1674-1720) headmaster of Merchant Taylor's School in London. Parsell's chief literary work was a translation of the Book of common Prayer into Latin. The Psalms, Epistles, and Gospels are described as being taken from Castellio's version, the rendering of the rest being Parsell's own. The first edition was published in 1706.." - See DNB.

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