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Subject(s)

• Bible O.T. Psalms—Paraphrases, English—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Church of England—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Psalters—England—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Related work(s)

Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605. Psalmes digested into a briefe table and brought into certaine principall heads. [Browse]

Summary note

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Notes

• Title and imprint of publication suggested by STC (2nd ed.).
• "Psalter or Psalmes of Dauid, after the translation of the Great Bible. With a briefe table teaching the true vse of euerie Psalme ... Imprinted at London by Peter Short, dewlling on Bredstreet hill, at the signe of the Starre. Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis. 1600" has special t.p. ; register is continuous.
• Includes: "The Psalmes digested into a briefe table and brought into certaine principall heads, accordnig [sic] to the direction of T. Beza."
• "Probably the smallest edition ever printed in black letter, a great curiosity, and so excessively rare as to be totally unknown to Lowndes, Dr. Cotton, and other bibliographers. It has extracts from the prayer book and the daily Godly praiers of Queen Elizabeth" --Cambridge University Library.
• Headpieces, tailpieces, initials, printed marginalia.
• Signatures: C-D⁸ E⁷ G-Y⁸ 2A-2C⁸.
• Imperfect: lacks t.p. and all of signatures A, B, S and E8; tightly bound and torn with some loss of text.
• Reproduction of original in: Cambridge University Library.

References

STC (2nd ed.), 2403

Other title(s)

Psalter or Psalmes of Dauid, after the translation of the Great Bible.

OCLC

751969701

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