00573

Title

Subject

Description

First printed in 1569 for Elizabeth I, and known as "Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book," this compilation of daily devotions was reissued for general use in 1578. Its striking woodcut frontispiece depicts the kneeling Queen as she looks steadfastly upward from her tiny prayer book.

Creator

Day, Richard, 1552–1607? and Day, John, 1522–1584, printer.

Source

00573. A booke of Christian prayers : Collected out of the auncie[n]t writers, and best learned in our tyme, worthy to be read with an earnest mynde of all Christians, in these daungerous and troublesome dayes, that God for Christes sake will yet still be mercyfull unto us. Christians. London: John Daye, 1578.

Relation

Renaissance

Format

Displayed as .jpg

Language

English

Type

Devotional

Collection

Fifty Women

Citation

Day, Richard, 1552–1607? and Day, John, 1522–1584, printer. , “00573,” Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions, accessed April 19, 2024, https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1605.