Ane colection of meditations & prayers &c. : especialy such as are proper to be us’d before, at, and after receiving of the Holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper for my own privat use.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lord's Supper--Prayers and devotions.

Lord's Supper.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

fragments (object portions)

anthologies

Prayers.

Engravings.

Hybrid books.

Manuscripts, English -- 17th century.

Manuscripts, English -- 18th century.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Dean Cooke Rare Books (Bristol, England), 2023.

Physical Description:

170 leaves : paper ; 155 x 95 (142 x 85) mm bound to 160 x 110 mm

Other Title:

Collection of meditations and prayers

Place of Publication:

[Moray, Scotland], [circa 1724]

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

A collection of manuscript prayers copied and engravings cut from multiple 17th- and early-18th-century printed works, published in English or English translations, focused on the sacrament of the Eucharist. A table of contents follows the bulk of the collection (after p. 316), followed by a few prayers written by the same hand and also added to the table of contents (p. 317-319). One of these prayers has a note, "Used by me when in France 1690 & 1691," but both the prayer and the note were likely written circa 1724. The title page note "this colection I begun in London 1686" also seems to be a late addition whose meaning is uncertain.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (p. i).

Pagination: Paper, ii (19th-century) + 169 + ii (19th-century); [i-ii], 1-10, [i-ii], 11-38, [i-ii], 39-146, [i-viii], 147-260, 263-286, [i-ii], 287-314, [i-vii], 315-321; original pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Layout: Frame-ruled in red ink with double upper horizontal bounding lines; running titles centered in between the upper bounding lines and the vertical bounding lines, and page numbers in between the upper bounding lines outside the outer vertical bounding line; octavo format.

Script: Written in italic script by a single hand.

Decoration: 24 engraved scenes, most from the life of Christ, cut from published works; one is hand-colored (Last Supper, p.8); one devotional engraving, mounted on the front flyleaf facing the title page, may have been added at the time of rebinding.

Binding: 19th-century calf, probably rebacked in the 20th century (Dean Cooke), tightly rebound; two metal clasps on the fore edge; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt.

Origin: Written in Moray (Morray in the manuscript), Scotland, completed in 1724 (title page, p. i; inscription in ink on fore edge).

Cited as:

Collection of meditations and prayers (Ms. Codex 2130). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1389714781

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