Shelfmark
Gf.2.08(03)
Main entry--uniform title
Bible. Psalms. Sternhold and Hopkins. English.
Title
The whole booke of Psalmes. Collected into English meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, Iohn Hopkins, and others: conferred with the Hebrew; with apt notes to sing them withall. Set forth and allowed to be sung in al churches, of all the people together, before and after morning and euening prayer, as also before and after sermons: and moreouer in priuate houses, for their godly solace and comfort, laying apart all vngodly songs & ballads, which tend only to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth..
Varying form of title
Whole book of Psalms
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : printed for the Companie of Stationers., 1625..
Physical description
[19], 125, 124-141 [i.e. 151], [16] p. : music : 28 cm. (Fo)
Note
Title within ornamental border.
Note
At foot of title within cartouche: Cum priuilegio.
Note
One column, black letter.
Note
Signatures: A-P⁶ Q⁴.
Note
Pagination begins on a verso, with sig. P2v numbered 141 (i.e. 151); sig. P6r numbered 142.
Note
Includes St. Athanasius: "Of the use and vertue of the Psalmes", a translation of "Opusculum in Psalmos".
Citation/references note
ESTC, S90752
Citation/references note
STC (2nd ed.), 2589
Provenance
Pictorial bookplate of James Moncrieff Melville.
Provenance
Label recording the donation in 1987 by Brigadier A. R. Babington (HKM's).
Provenance
ECL bookplate.
Binding
Contemporary brown leather binding; wooden boards; blind-stamped and rolled decoration; brass rose cornerpiece bosses; diamond and rose centrepiece; two leather and brass clasps; 20th century rebacked.
Copy-specific note
Previously Hh.1.3
Copy-specific note
Bound with: Geneva Bible (1610) and Book of common prayer (1611).
Copy-specific note
'VNICORNE' stamped into leather binding on upper cover above centrepiece.
Copy-specific note
Copy imperfect: wanting quire Q.
Subject
Bible. Psalms. English. Early works to 1800.
Subject
Prayers Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Athanasius Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, Opusculum in Psalmos. English.
Added entry--name
Hopkins, John, ? - -1570 translator.
Added entry--name
Sternhold, Thomas, ? - -1549 translator.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B46284