HERMAN V. von Wied, Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1552). A simple and religious consultatio of us Herman by the grace of God Archbishop of Colone and Prince Electoure &c ... by what meanes a Christian reformation, and founded in Gods worde, of doctrine, administratio of devine sacramentes, of ceremonies ... may be begon among men committed to our pastorall charge ... Perused by the translator therof and amended in many places, 1548. Edited by Martin Bucer and Philip Melanchthon. London: John Day [1548]. Small 8 o (136 x 90 mm). Armorial woodcut on verso of title, woodcut of St. John the Evangelist at end. (Title repaired along gutter margin, some sidenotes cropped; woodcut at end faded.) 19th-century red morocco gilt, edges gilt. Provenance : W.R. Huntington, 1887 (signature on front free endpaper); Cambridge, Library of the Episcopal Theological School (bookplate and ink stamp on title). Second edition in English, first published in 1547. This was the principal source for the 1548 Order of the Communion, that preceded the first Book of Common Prayer of 1549. Cf. E.C.Ratcliff The booke of common prayer of the Churche of England (1949), p.13; STC 13214.
HERMAN V. von Wied, Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1552). A simple and religious consultatio of us Herman by the grace of God Archbishop of Colone and Prince Electoure &c ... by what meanes a Christian reformation, and founded in Gods worde, of doctrine, administratio of devine sacramentes, of ceremonies ... may be begon among men committed to our pastorall charge ... Perused by the translator therof and amended in many places, 1548. Edited by Martin Bucer and Philip Melanchthon. London: John Day [1548]. Small 8 o (136 x 90 mm). Armorial woodcut on verso of title, woodcut of St. John the Evangelist at end. (Title repaired along gutter margin, some sidenotes cropped; woodcut at end faded.) 19th-century red morocco gilt, edges gilt. Provenance : W.R. Huntington, 1887 (signature on front free endpaper); Cambridge, Library of the Episcopal Theological School (bookplate and ink stamp on title). Second edition in English, first published in 1547. This was the principal source for the 1548 Order of the Communion, that preceded the first Book of Common Prayer of 1549. Cf. E.C.Ratcliff The booke of common prayer of the Churche of England (1949), p.13; STC 13214.
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