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- The Printing and the Printers of The Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1561
- The Printing and the Printers of The Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1561
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Plates
- Preface: The Archaeology of a Printed Book
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions
- Conventions
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 From Henry VIII to the First Edwardian Prayer Book
- Chapter 2 The Second Edwardian Prayer Book
- Chapter 3 Mary’s Reign and Elizabeth’s First Parliament
- Chapter 4 Richard Grafton’s Edition (STC 16291)
- Chapter 5 The First Jugge-and-Cawood Edition (STC 16292)
- Chapter 6 The Preliminaries: Collaboration and Cancels
- Chapter 7 The Orphaned Ordinal
- Chapter 8 The Third and Fourth Editions
- Chapter 9 The Quarto and Octavo Editions
- Chapter 10 The 1561 Revision of the Calendar
- Chapter 11 Concluding Summary
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 10 - The 1561 Revision of the Calendar
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2021
- The Printing and the Printers of The Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1561
- The Printing and the Printers of The Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1561
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Plates
- Preface: The Archaeology of a Printed Book
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions
- Conventions
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 From Henry VIII to the First Edwardian Prayer Book
- Chapter 2 The Second Edwardian Prayer Book
- Chapter 3 Mary’s Reign and Elizabeth’s First Parliament
- Chapter 4 Richard Grafton’s Edition (STC 16291)
- Chapter 5 The First Jugge-and-Cawood Edition (STC 16292)
- Chapter 6 The Preliminaries: Collaboration and Cancels
- Chapter 7 The Orphaned Ordinal
- Chapter 8 The Third and Fourth Editions
- Chapter 9 The Quarto and Octavo Editions
- Chapter 10 The 1561 Revision of the Calendar
- Chapter 11 Concluding Summary
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In 1561 Elizabeth commanded that the liturgical calendar should be revised, because the Old Testament chapters assigned to each day included many that could profitably be replaced by more edifying ones. Because thousands of 1559 folio editions were already in use, Richard Jugge was commissioned to print cancel calendars that could be inserted to replace the obsolete ones. The revisions did not, however, really implement the queen’s wishes, because although thirty-five chapters were removed from the sequence, the only new insertion was Leviticus 26. More immediately noticeable, however, was a considerable increase in the number of saints’ days and fasts listed in the ‘miscellaneous’ column. Those additions have sometimes been interpreted as a resurgence of Catholic traditions, but it has seldom been noticed that most of them had already been added in the small-format ‘popular’ editions of 1552–53 by those unimpeachable Protestants, Grafton and Whitchurch.
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