Lot 92
Scottish Prayer Book - 'Laud's Liturgy'
The Booke of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments
£1,134
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
and Other Parts of Divine Service for the Use of the Church of Scotland. [Part 2:] The Psalter, or Psalmes of David: after the Translation set Forth by Authority in King James his Time of Blessed Memory. As it shall be sung or said throughout all the Churches of Scotland. Edinburgh: printed by Robert Young, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie, 1637. First edition, 2 parts in 1 volume, folio (28.6 x 19cm), contemporary speckled calf ruled in blind, later manuscript spine-title, edges dyed red, collates a-b8 A-Q8 R6 2a-2i8 2k6, text mainly in black letter, title-page and calendar printed in red and black, woodcut factotums and initials, ownership inscription and annotation to title-page, short crack to head of front joint, moderate browning, closed marginal tears to M3 and R3, short tears to lower margins of final leaf of BCP and first two leaves of Psalter, small worm-track to lower margins from quire 2b to end of volume, bound with at rear The Psalmes of King David: translated by King James (London: Thomas Harper, 1636) [STC 16607 for the main item: Psalter with no catchword on 2k6]
Provenance
The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
Footnote
First edition of Archbishop Laud's version of the Book of Common Prayer for Scottish churches, the imposition of which provoked Scotland into open rebellion against Charles I, leading to the drawing up of the National Covenant and the epochal conflagration of the British Civil Wars. Its first reading at St Giles's Cathedral Edinburgh on 23 July 1637 was met with rioting by the congregation, ignited according to legend by market-trader Jenny Geddes, who is reputed to have thrown her stool at the presiding dean. For an original copy of the National Covenant for Scotland see lot 194.
