Book of Common Prayer

The general term for a series of collections of prayers and liturgies used by numerous churches within the Anglican Communion. The first Book of Common Prayer was created in 1549 by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer.

Evolution in England:
1549
1552
1559
1604
1662- This book is still officially in use in England and Africa.
(1928: failed to win approval)

Evolution in Scotland:
1662 English Book of Common Prayer
1674 Scottish Liturgy

Evolution in America:
1662 English Book of Common Prayer plus Holy Communion rite from the 1674 Scottish Liturgy led to
1790 Book of Common Prayer
1892
1928
1979

Evolution in New Zealand
1662 English Book of Common Prayer
1988 A New Zealand Prayer Book, He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa

Evolution in Canada:
English 1662
1922
1962
1967 (French translation- Le Recueil des Prières de la Communauté Chrétienne)


For more information, see:
Online 1979 Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church
"Evolution of the Prayer Book" in Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 volumes, from bartleby.com
A New History of the Book of Common Prayer at justus.org
Numerous resources related to the Book of Common Prayer from Anglicans Online

Black Rubric

Inserted into the 1552 Book of Common Prayer at the insistence of Calvinists, which noted that the direction to kneel at communion was not meant to imply transubstantiation or adoration of the elements. Rubrics were normally printed in red ink; this rubric had not been approved by Parliament and was inserted as the book was going to press.

For more information, see:
"The Black Rubric" at Anglican Eucharistic Theology

Breviary

A book that contained the daily office; its convenience made it popular for person devotion and use.

Great Bible

An English version of the Bible, authorized by Thomas Cromwell in the name of Henry VIII, published in 1538 and translated by Miles Coverdale, whose version of the psalms are still used in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer.