The Little Gidding concordances are fascinating evidence of the way this small and unique religious community lived and worked, and what they thought was important. Study, work and prayer were the central tenets of their lives, and they lived remarkably minutely organised and scheduled days. This approach to life and religion is much in evidence in the concordances.

From the occasional playful embellishment of a print to the painstaking assembling of verses and highly accomplished bindings, the concordances reveal the character of the community that made them. The inmates at Little Gidding firmly believed that repeated and structured reading, studying and memorising of Scripture was absolutely central to living well. They made the concordances to facilitate exactly this practice.

This enormous work, intended to help a pious student in reading and understanding the Scripture, gives a wonderful insight into the period of the early seventeenth century generally, as well as bringing us close to the lives, thoughts and activities of one small religious community.