The Prymer or Lay Folks’ Prayer Book

Two Parts in One. The contents of Part I include: Text: The Hours of the Blessed Virgin; The 7 Penitential Psalms; The 15 Gradual Psalms; The Litany; The Office for the Dead; and The Commendations. The contents of Part II include: Introduction: On the Origin of the Prymer; Some Historical Notes; The Distribution of the Psalms of the Prymer; An Attempt to Define the Structure of the Prymer according to the Uses of Sarum and York; The Structure of the Prymer Secundum Usum or Consuetudinem Anglie; The Structure of Two Eleventh-Century Versions of the Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary; The Structure of the Durham Prymer (Brit. Mus. MS., Harl. 1804); and Table Showing the Reading of Six Sarum Prymers.