Monument of Matrones Volume 1 (Lamps 1-3)

As its compiler Thomas Bentley writes, The Monument of Matrones (1582) is a ''domesticall librarie plentifullie stored and replenished''. This 1500-page book is one of a long line of books of secular prayer reaching from the Middle Ages through the sixteenth-century English compilations of prayer and meditations that grew out of the English Reformation. It is unique because it is addressed specifi...