Just an addition to Bill East's excellent reply:
The Edwardian and Elizabethan Book(s) of Common Prayer did not include
the psalter as a matter of course (although, of course, one could bind a
psalter to the BCP, although the more usual was to bind the BCP with an
entire Bible). The Latin phrase above the English, however, was present
both for the psalms and the canticles in Morning and Evening Prayer.
The use of the Latin as a reference back to other sources, both
liturgical and Biblical, is all the more probable when one remembers
that the BCP was primarily a clerical book throughout the 16th century
-- the practice of members of the literate laity owning their own copies
doesn't appear to have really begun until the 17th-century.
Sharon Arnoult
History Dept.
Southwest Texas State Univ.
Bill East wrote:
>
> --- mbloy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Greetings
> >
> > At a guess (and only that), could it have been after the Elizabethan
> > settlement when the Book of Common Prayer came into use?
>
> The Book of Common Prayer came into use before the Elizabethan
> settlement, in 1549, in the reign of Edward VI.
>
> Oriens.
>
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