Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
There is thus, as in all editions, a great deal in the volume besides the Horae, from which the book takes its name. But of the hundred and sixty pages to which (in addition to the twelve leaves of Kalendar) the volume extends, upwards of sixty are occupied by the Hours, which...
These, with the exception of the last, which is not quite so common, occur in most Horae. Other illustrations, which are frequently found, especially in earlier editions, repres...
7. book I have ever seen. The other Elizabethan book in the collection iseven more interesting, for its covers are embossed with the portrait-stamp of the queen here reproduced, and no other instance of the use of the stamp is recorded. The book is t...
4. x. Prayers: Before the Image of the Body of Christ; To theThere is thus, as in all editions, a great deal in the volume besides the Horae, from which the book takes its name. But of the hundred and sixty pages to which (in addition to...
3. iv. The Hours of the Blessed Virgin--'Horae intemeratae beatae1. ii. Passages from the Gospels on the Birth, Ascension, and Death5. ii. The root of Jesse, from whose slumbering body a tree is2. iii. Prayers: On the Trinity: 'Whan thou goest first out of thy