Rights

The source

The 1853 Parker edition of the Preces Privatae, reprinting the 1675 Sheldonian, is in the public domain. The page images are from the University of Toronto’s copy, digitised by the Internet Archive.

The translation and the encoding

The English translation and the encoding of this edition are © Wroot Press and licensed CC BY‑NC 4.0 — free to copy, quote and adapt for non-commercial use, with attribution.

“The encoding” is not a formality here, and it is worth saying what it covers, because it is most of the work: a line-faithful transcription of all three scripts, with the plate’s indentation and its measured horizontal spacing preserved; the sense-line numbering that every citation in this edition depends on; 1,676 apparatus entries; and a scripture index of 2,361 references, of which 94 are identifications the 1853 never marked.

Where this text lives

This site is the one published home of the Wroot Press English. Other Wroot Press sites link here; none re-hosts it. If you want to point at a passage, the line anchors are stable — /read/1/day1#p34.27 is printed page 34, sense-line 27, and will stay so.

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