BUCHANAN (George):

Georgii Buchanani Scoti poetarum sui seculi facile principis, Paraphrasis Psalmorum Davidis poetica. Ad optimam editionem Thomæ Ruddimanni, A.M. summo studio recognita et castigata. Præmissa est accuratior quam antehac carminum explicatio.

Glasguae: In Aedibus Academicis, Excudbat Jacobus Mundell...; Edinburghi: Prostant apud J. Dickson..., 1797. 12mo (in 6s), 139 x 83 mms, pp. xiv, 234, contemporary sheepskin; binding a bit worn. The Latin scholar and historian George Buchanan (1506 - 1582) began translating or paraphrasing the Psalms as early as 1650, and an edition was published in 1568. Thomas Ruddiman (1674–1757) published an edition of Buchanan's works, and an edition of the psalms appeared separately in 1716.

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N° du livre: 8046

Catalogue: Psalms

Mots-clés: psalms translation literature

DAVID, PSALMS OF

Psalmi Davidis ex hebraica veritate latins versibus expressi A Io. Matthaeo Toscano, I. V. D. Quibus praefixa sunt Argumenta singulis distichis comprehensa, opera Io. Avrati Poetae Regij.

Parisiis. Ex Officina Federici Morelli Typographi Regij. 1575. FIRST EDITIONS. 2 volumes in 1, 8vo, 176 x 105 mms., fol. [8], 141, [7], title within woodcut border. [BOUND WITH] Octo Cantica Sacra e Sacris Bibliis latino carmine expressa a Io. Matthae A Toscano: praefixit argumentis I. Avrati Poetae Regij. Eivsdem Toscani Hymni, & Poemata ad Ampliss. V. Renatum Biragum Franciae Cancellarium. Parisii. Ex Officina Federici Morelli Typographi Regij. 1757. 8vo, 176 x105 mms., fol. 60, title within woodcut border, later calf (probably 18th century, rebacked with old spine laid down, new black morocco label, oval gilt ornament on each cover; contemporary name on title-page of first items obscured, various contemporary names and scribblings on front paste-down end-paper, slight worming of top margin of text throughout occasionally affecting one or two letters of a word, but a reasonable copy. Giovanni Matteo Toscano (?1500 - 1576) translated the psalms from the Hebrew, and the first item includes a poem in Greek dedicated to Toscano. The text was edited by Federic Morel (1523 - 1583). Jean Dorat (1508 - 1588) introduces the psalms and canticles with a couplet in Latin in the first item, while Morel discusses the metres used by Toscano in the second part, which contains Toscano's poems. Toscano met Dorat at the court of Catherine de Medicis (1519 - 1589), and Dorat, effectively his mentor, assisted him with the preparation of these texts. Adams B1464 and T843.

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N° du livre: 7265

Catalogue: Psalms

Mots-clés: psalms translation literature

LINCOLN'S INN. PSALM TUNES. [SKIRROW (Walker)]:

A Selection of Psalm Tunes, accommodated to the new version for the use of Lincoln's Inn Chapel

London: Engrav'd and Printed by S. Straight, 12 Hemmings Row, St. Martins Lane ?FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Small folio, 266 x 160 mms., pp. [ii], 45 [46 blank], engraved throughout, contemporary straight-grain blue morocco, three gilt rules on borders, plain spine, with gilt identification on both covers, "T./ W. S./ Lincoln's Inn/ 1851"; front joint restored, and a very good copy with pink end-papers. Digital images of the BL copy show very clearly that theirs has a similar pattern of initials stamped on the front cover, but with a much earlier date: "T. / J. R. / LINCOLN'S INN. / 1822." In their catalogue entry, the BL librarians did not note the initials on the cover, let alone state what they stand for. Perhaps the binding simply seemed inscrutable, inconsequential, or both. With the surfacing of this copy, a shared pattern begins to emerge, and something of a mystery presents itself. Why such similar bindings, on the same book, with such disparate dates? Whose importance at Lincoln's Inn, in the early nineteenth century, would merit personalized gilt lettering on the bindings of their copies of the psalms sung in the community's chapel? The top letter in each case on the covers is a capital "T". The head of Lincoln's Inn was not called the Master, the President, or the Principal, but the Treasurer. The Treasurer in 1822 was the distinguished lawyer Jonathan Raine, K.C. (1763-1831). In 1851, the Treasurer was Walker Skirrow, Q.C (1784-1866). The initials on our copy would seem therefore to stand for "Treasurer / Walker Skirrow", and the initials on the BL copy for "Treasurer / Jonathan Raine". This provenances hints at a cryptic bookbinding tradition that existed, spanning decades, at the highest level of one of the most prestigious institutions of British law: it seems the head of Lincoln's Inn would receive a specially-gilt personalized copy of the psalms sung in the chapel of the Inn. This volume thus suggests that there was bookbinding tradition in a society of distinguished barristers that was hitherto unknown. Copac and OCLC locating only the one copy in the BL and give c. 1820 as a publishing date, but Straight's name does not appear in William B. Todd's A Director of Printers and Others in Allied Trades London & Vicinity 1800 - 1840. The date given on the covers of this copy would suggest that c . 1850 would be more accurate.

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N° du livre: 9291

Catalogue: Psalms

Mots-clés: psalms binding

PLAYFORD (John):

The Whole Book of Psalms: With the Usual Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Together With all the Ancient and Proper Tunes sung in Churches, with some of Later Use. Composed in Three Parts, Cantus, Medius, & Bassus: In a more Plain and Useful Method than hat been formerly Published. The Third Edition, Corrected and Amended.

London, Printed by J. Heptinstall, for the Company of Stationers; And are to be sold by Samuel Sprint..., 1697. 8vo, 172 x 112 mms., pp. [x], 288, with pages 287 - 288 missing but with xerox copy included, engraved frontispiece, music throughout text, late 18th century sheepskin, recent plain reback; small repair to leaf A1, but a good copy with the florid ownership inscription "William Boyer/ His Booke 1699" and further inscriptions in his hand on the recto of the frontispiece, the ownership inscription "Edith Mary Oakley/ her book/ August 1928" on the recto of the front free end-paper. Playford (1623 - 1686) first published this in 1677, and he composed at least one tune, "Bristol," that was included in his edition of the Psalms. After Playford's death, the second edition was published in 1695 by Henry Playford, his only surviving son. The last edition that I have traced is the 20th, published in 1757. ESTC locates the second edition of 1695 and the fourth edition of 1698 (from which the photocopies are taken), but copies of this edition can be found in the Folger and the Newberry.

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N° du livre: 8916

Catalogue: Psalms

Mots-clés: psalms music prose

PSALMS. DAVID.

The Psalms of David, in Metre; Newly translated, and diligently compared with the Original Text, and former Translations. More plain, smooth and agreeable to the Text, than any heretofore.

Berwick: Printed for and sold by Alexander Nisbett, and John Ross, 1789. FIRST BERWICK EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), 181 x 110 mms., pp. [3], 4 - 358, expertly rebound in full calf, gilt spine, red morocco label in a fine replication of an 18th century binding; text a bit soiled and fingered. ESTC locates a copy in the Library of Congress; Copac add NLS.

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N° du livre: 8730

Catalogue: Psalms

Mots-clés: psalms provincial imprint literature

PSALMS. STERNHOLD (Thomas) and HOPKINS (John):

The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, And Others; Conferred with the Hebrew.

London: Printed by A. Wilde, For the Company of Stationers, 1760. 8vo, unpaginated, A-H8 [pp. 128]. Bound with: The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments.... Oxford: Printed by Mark Baskett, 1762. 8vo, unpaginated, a8A8b8B-Aa8Bb4. Bound with: [VICKERS (William)]: A Companion to the Altar...[etc.] London: Printed for John Beecroft, 1759. 8vo, unpaginated [a4]B-D8, including frontispiece. 3 volumes in 1, contemporary calf, spine gilt; texts fingered and soiled, front cover detached, bottom panel of spine missing. A typical "Sammelband" for the Church of England in the 18th century, with the Sternhold and Hopkins as the last item. In this instance, the printings are uncommon: ESTC T82246 locates only the two BL copies of "The Whole Book of Psalms," though there were other editions with different imprints in the same year. For "The Book of Common Prayer," ESTC T81297: L, L, AWn, BMU, BRG, O; GEU-T, NAlU. For Beecroft's printing of the "Companion," ESTC T182811, O and NU for this issue with note at foot of title-page.