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Primer (prayer book) Primer (Latin: primarium; Middle English: primmer, also spelled prymer) [1] is the name for a variety of devotional prayer books that originated among educated medieval laity in the 14th century, particularly in England. [2] While the contents of primers have varied dependent on edition, they often contained portions of the ...
An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is decorated with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations.Often used in the Roman Catholic Church for prayers and liturgical books such as psalters and courtly literature, the practice continued into secular texts from the 13th century onward and typically include proclamations, enrolled bills, laws ...
The Pieta prayer booklet is a book of Roman Catholic prayers. [1] The prayers in this collection date back to the 18th century. Most of the prayers were first published in Toulouse, France in 1740 and over time gathered a strong following. Pope Pius IX learned of them almost a century later, and approved them in 1862.
A prayer book is a book containing prayers and perhaps devotional readings, for private or communal use, or in some cases, outlining the liturgy of religious services. Books containing mainly orders of religious services, or readings for them are termed "service books" or "liturgical books", and are thus not prayer-books in the strictest sense, but the term is often used very loosely.
Books of hours (Latin: horae) are Christian prayer books, which were used to pray the canonical hours. [2] The use of a book of hours was especially popular in the Middle Ages, and as a result, they are the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript.
Saint Augustine's Prayer Book. Saint Augustine's Prayer Book is an Anglo-Catholic devotional book published for members of the various Anglican churches in the United States and Canada by the Order of the Holy Cross, an Anglican monastic community. The first edition, edited by Loren N. Gavitt, was published in 1947.