The Primer Or Lay Folks' Prayer Book
Publisher: Published for the Early English Text Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner
Published: 1897
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Description: Section I of the present volume, the Essay on the Origin of the Prymer, is from the pen of Mr. Edmund Bishop, to whom the grateful thanks of our Society are due. For all other matter I am wholly responsible. 
Our thanks are also due to Mrs. Willett of Haywards Heath, for the kind loan of her valuable MS. York Prymer ; to Dr. Furnivall, who has punctuated the present volume; to the Eev. Canon Christopher Wordsworth for his care in reading the proofs, and to many officials of various libraries, especially all those of the Department of MSS. in the British Museum, to whom for ever-ready aid in obscure readings, and unstinted labour in procuring frequently very many MSS. for examination at a time, for some years past, I am personally very greatly indebted. 
Of works dealing with the subject of the Mediaeval Prayer Book, 
I may specify the third volume of Maskell's Monumenta Bitualia ; the volumes issued by and the property of Messrs. Longman, under the title of The Prymer ; a little book by Mr. Athelstan Riley, restricted to the Hours of the Blessed Virgin, and two separate forthcoming works, respectively by the Rev. C. H. Evelyn-White and the Rev. Edgar Hoskins. 
In the present volume I have endeavoured to add something to our knowledge of the subject, and to repeat as far as possible nothing hitherto published ; and it will be noticed that I have attempted to treat only of the earlier or MS. copies of the Prymer. 
H. L. 
Bexley Heath.
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: I. On the Origin of the Prymer   xi; title: II. Some Historical Notes xxxix; title: III. The Distribution of the Psalms of the Prymer liii; title: IV. An Attempt to define the Structure of the Prymer according to the Uses of Sarum and York   lv; title: V. The Structure of the Prymer Secundum Usum or Consuetudinem Anglie lxxiii; title: VI. The Structure of two Eleventh-Century Versions of the Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary lxxv; title: VII. The Structure of the Durham Prymer (Brit. Mus. MS., Harl. 1804) lxxxv; title: VIII. Table showing the Reading of Six Sarum Prymers xci