The annotated book of common prayer : being an historical, ritual, and theological commentary on the devotional system of the Church of England . \:.J \-l£i-cis\-. mew Uamrt lic^ \ (]C()onfii)rarina$ Uis: bcnoQ I, -iSTOffoi-oiiif tlic;«-( While these horn-books were thus provided for the poor, the Scriptorium of the Monastery alsoi)r(3vided Prymers in English and Latin for those who could afford the expensive luxury of a Latin Prymers are well known under the name of Books of Hours. Vernacular Prymers existwhich were written as early as the fourteenth century, and many relics of old E
The annotated book of common prayer : being an historical, ritual, and theological commentary on the devotional system of the Church of England . \:.J \-l£i-cis\-. mew Uamrt lic^ \ (]C()onfii)rarina$ Uis: bcnoQ I, -iSTOffoi-oiiif tlic;«-( While these horn-books were thus provided for the poor, the Scriptorium of the Monastery alsoi)r(3vided Prymers in English and Latin for those who could afford the expensive luxury of a Latin Prymers are well known under the name of Books of Hours. Vernacular Prymers existwhich were written as early as the fourteenth century, and many relics of old English de\otion of thatdate still remain.^ These English Prymers contained about one-third of the Psalms, the Canticles, theApostles Creed, with a large number of the prayers, anthems, and jierhaps hynnis. Jhey continuedto be published up to the end of Henry rcign,^ and, in a modified fonn, even at a later date:and they must have familiarized those who used them with a largo portion of the Services, even whenthey did not understand the Latin in which those Services were said by the clergy and choirs. The style of the language in
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