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By Colin B. Atkinson

As its compiler Thomas Bentley writes, The Monument of Matrones (1582) is a 'domesticall librarie plentifullie saved and replenished'. This 1500-page booklet is considered one of a protracted line of books of secular prayer attaining from the center a long time in the course of the sixteenth-century English compilations of prayer and meditations that grew out of the English Reformation. it truly is specified since it is addressed particularly to girls and comprises prayers and meditations written via ladies in addition to for them. The Monument helped outline women's roles within the Anglican Church and is intertwined with the complete nature of the Protestant Reformation and where of ladies in it. The paintings is split into seven numbered elements which Bentley titles 'Lamps'. This structural topic relies on a fusion of the imagery of the clever and silly virgins and their lamps in Matthew 25:1-13 with the imaginative and prescient of the seven lampstands (or seven-branched candlestick) in Rev.1:20-2:1. during this facsimile version quantity 1 comprises Lamps 1-3, quantity 2 includes Lamp four, and quantity three includes Lamps 5-7. The Introductory notice that looks in all the 3 volumes presents an summary of the contents of The Monument so as to support the reader to understand the riches of this giant e-book. it's also major in picking out, for the 1st time, the compiler Thomas Bentley because the churchwarden of St Andrew Holborn, urban of London. The replica reproduced during this version is the British Library replica; the place precious, pages from The Huntington Library replica were substituted.

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