The whole booke of Psalmes, collected into Englishe metre by T. Sternhold, W. Whitingham, I. Hopkins, and others : conferred with the Hebrue, with apt notes to sing them withall : newly set forth and allowed to be song of all the people together, in all churches, before and after mornyng and euening prayer : as also before & after the sermons, and moreouer in priuate houses, for their godly solace and comfort, laying apart all vngodly songes and ballades, which tend onely to the nourishing of vyce, and corrupting of youth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hopkins, John, -1570.

Sternhold, Thomas, -1549.

Whittingham, William, -1579.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

English Renaissance in Context Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Bible. Psalms. English. Sternhold and Hopkins. 1584.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church of England--Hymns.

Church of England.

Bible. Psalms.

Psalms (Music).

Bible. Psalms--Paraphrases, English.

Psalms (Music)--Early works to 1800.

Hymns, English--Early works to 1800.

Hymns, English.

Genre:

Hymns.

Penn Provenance:

Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 (honoree)

Furness, Horace Howard, Jr. (donor)

Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor)

Stammer, Robart (autograph, 17 Nov. 1680)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 401 pages, 39 unnumbered pages : illustrations, music ; 20 cm (4to)

Place of Publication:

At London : Printed by Iohn Daye, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, 1583 [that is, 1584]

Notes:

Colophon is dated: 1584.

Signatures: A⁴ B-Y⁸ Aa-Ff⁸ G⁴.

At foot of title page, before publication date: Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis. Forbidding all others to print these Psalmes or any part of them.

In this ed., the "i" of signature "Ei" is printed under the "e" of "embrace" and the colophon is dated 1584; a variant has has both the colophon and t.p. dated 1583, and the "i" of signature "Ei" is printed under the "r" of "embrace".

Woodcuts: title within woodcut border, large ill. on t.p. verso, initials, tail-piece.

Printed in one column, in black letter.

Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640; 1597:06 on UMI microfilm.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: all after leaf C8 wanting. Two leaves from another ed. (signed G4, [G5]; paginated 93-96) with psalms 148-150 and other hymns inserted at end.

Penn Libraries copy has a few early ms. notes in margins and on one leaf inserted at end.

Bound with: Church of England. [Book of common prayer]. [The boke of common prayer and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies in the Churche of Englande]. [London : C. Barker, 1584?]

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 2466.5

ESTC S116993

OCLC:

71844552