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Title: [Guide to Christian conduct and devotion].
Contributor: Hall, Bryan, 1922-former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1790]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript. Approximately 30 blank pages at the end of the text.
Scope/Content: Manuscript guide to proper Christian behavior and devotion, written in an exceptionally neat copperplate hand. The manuscript begins with sections on topics such as reading, eating, conversation, domestic behavior and public prayer. It continues with subjects for reflection for every day of the week, followed by texts of private, morning and evening prayers, as well as services for morning and evening family prayers. These family prayers seem to follow an amended version of the 1662 Prayer Book.
Condition: Bound in contemporary gilt-panelled calf with marbled endpapers.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Devotional literature
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Extent: [100] p., bound ;27 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1k602
MS.2012.002
Language: English
eng
Subject: Church of England--Prayers and devotions--18th century.
Place: England
Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Bryan Hall on front paste-down endpaper; Lot 680 in the March 2004 Bonham's sale at Old Rectory, Banningham, Norfolk (Sale 11166).
Location: CLUW

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