No, but I typeset liturgical books as part of a project I am a member of called LiturgyWorks, and these include lectionaries and a Gospel Book. It is beneficial to memorization, because good typography is an art form on a par with manuscript artistry. The 20th century answer to the Book of Kells or the Rabbula Gospel or illuminated primers, missals and Psalters of all forms from the pre-Gutenberg era is in the form of typographical masterpieces like the
Standard Book* of the 1928
Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church designed by John W. Updike, as well as his earlier
Standard Book of the 1892 BCP. The copies of these printed on vellum for archival purposes by the Episcopal Church are priceless, and the 500 printed copies, sold in the case of the 1892 and 1928 editions to subscribers who ordered the book in advance (both selling out in record time) to affluent American Anglicans whose names read like the first class passenger manifold on a luxury trans-Atlantic steamship such as RMS
Berengaria, or RMS
Olympic, or RMS
Queen Mary.** There was to be a Standard Book of the 1979 BCP, and a beautiful
Prospect was designed by the San Francisco-based
Arrion Press, whose editions of books like Moby Dick are regarded as classic.
I don’t claim to be Updike, but my project aims to create public domain liturgical books including Gospel Books, Psalters and other lectionaries, which consist of scripture arranged according to a schedule of lessons throughout the year which correspond to the holy days and seasons of the Church, in a new manner appropriate for the age of print on demand and tablet computers. And this is intensely rewarding as I said earlier and contributes to the memorization of scripture.
*The Episcopal Church, since its inception in the 1780s as a result of the Church of England abandoning Anglicans and Methodists in the newly independent United States, forcing the organization of the Protestant Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, which are now the Episcopal Church USA (and the Anglican Church in North America, as some ECUSA dioceses left, such as the Diocese of Fort Worth), released its editions of the
Book of Common Prayer into the public domain and used definitive Standard Books held in the cathedral of each diocese as reference copies until the 1979 edition.
** The RMS
Queen Mary has become endangered, so maritime history observers should pay attention, and if donations wind up being solicited, I for one will make one.