Hart.-Bodleian; Sion College; Lambeth; Exeter Cathedral; Marsh's Library; Bp. Daly; Dr. Cotton; Lea Wilson. 8°. The PSALMS; in prose and metre; with notes, &c.; London, by T. C. for the Company.-Bodleian; Dr. Bliss. The PSALMS; by Sternhold, &c.; London, by G. M. for the 12o. Company.-Balliol College. fol. The same; London, for the Company.-Bodleian. 8°. The same; London, by A. G. for the Company. 4o. The same; for the Company.-Publ. Libr. Cambridge. fol. The same; by T. P. for the same.-Museum; York Cathedral. 4o. The same; by G. M. for the same.-Marsh's Library, Dublin. 12o. The PSALMS; by Sternhold, &c., with apt notes; London, by T. C. for the Company.-Dr. Bliss. The same; by F. K. for the Company.-Lea Wilson. 1636. 16o. 12°. 18o. 8. The PSALMS; by Sternhold, &c.; London, by E. P. for the fol. 4o. 4°. The same; by J. L. for the Company.-Museum; Publ. Libr. The same; for the Company.-Trinity Coll. Dublin. The same; London, by S. M. for the Company.-Lea Wilson. 12°. The PSALMS; translated (into metre) by King James m; Lon As copies of that interesting volume, the original edition of 1637, are seldom to be met with, except in public libraries, the following particulars may not be unacceptable here, though not immediately connected with King James' version of the Psalms: The library of the University of Glasgow contains no fewer than four copies in one of which a former zealous possessor has written the following note: "This is "the book called the Service-book,' "that was prest upon the kirk of Scot"land by the Prelates of that tyme, in : don, by Thomas Harper.-British Museum; Christ Church; Balliol College; Corpus Christi College, Oxford; Marsh's Library, Dublin. 66 6 'glish.' The reason I kept it un"destroyed is, that all generations "following may take heed of Nova"cions in the kirk, and praise God for "our preservation. Alexander Block“head (sic).” I have seen, in England and Ireland, at different times and places, about 30 copies of this edition; and I think that nearly all of them had the catchword "CERTAINE " printed at the foot of the last page of the prose Psalter, with which the volume concludes; denoting that" certaine godly prayers" were intended to follow, as had been the case in many previous English Service-books. Of the Glasgow copies, three are without the catchword: and on comparing the four together, I perceived that the Psalter had been reprinted; not the title-page only, but all the sheets. The copy with the catchword bears for title, "The Psalter, 66 fol. Irwin, printed in the "Irish Ecclesi"astical Journal" for February, 1842, containing a description of a very curious and interesting copy of the book of 1637, preserved in the public library of Armagh; which has, on a fly-leaf, the following MS. memorandum : "This book was collated with the "Book of Common Prayer, &c. of "the Church of England, printed in " quarto, 1632, which book was altered "in the margin of Archbishop Laud's own hand to be sent into Scotland "as the Book of Common Prayer "to be printed for the use of that "Church; and the differences be"tween this and that Book so altered "are noted in the places where they occur. The book so altered is in "the library of the city of Norwich; " and was given to it by the Rev. Mr. "Watson, rector of Hingham in Nor"folk. The places also in this book "which are taken from those altera"tions are marked, either by a line "drawn under them, or by commas in "the margin." Mr. Irwin gives several extracts from Prynne and Heylin, bearing upon this subject: and he adds; "This copy, therefore, of the Scotch "Prayer-book having been compared "with the original volume preserved "in Norwich, exhibits those altera"tions which were suggested by Laud, "but were not adopted by the prelates "in Scotland; and also enables us to "trace those deviations from the En"glish Liturgy, which were introduced, "without Laud's suggestion, by the "Scotch bishops. The former, the "rejected alterations, have never, that "I am aware of, been published, or even noticed by any writer. The "latter I have discovered by a com'parison of this Scotch Prayer-book "with a copy of the English Prayer"book in Armagh Library, printed in 66 A paraphrase, (in metre,) upon the PSALMS; and upon the HYMNS dispersed throughout the OLD and NEW TESTAMENTS; by G. S. [George Sandys ";] London, at the Bell in the study of Archbishop Laud. It seems that a second copy, besides that at Armagh, was made by Archbishop Tenison, and is now in the library at Lambeth. In Trinity College, Dublin, are three copies of this book; which deserve some notice. One of them is the usual copy, with the catchword: the second, formerly belonging to Archbishop Palliser, is of the second, more rare edition, without the catchword, the title and the initial letters entirely different from the other. The third copy is very remarkable, being handsomely printed on large thick paper. It was a presentation-copy from Spottiswoode, Archbishop of St. Andrews, to Edward Wren, Bishop of Norwich; and still preserves the original autograph letter, dated 5 April, 1637. It is of the first edition. I do not remember to have seen, or heard of, another copy on large paper. The Rev. Dr. Todd, fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, possesses a copy which formerly was presented by Sir Robert Sibbald to Bishop Nicolson, at the time when he was Archdeacon of Carlisle. It is of the first edition; but has the singularity of containing both the original leaf, (signature H h 3) and its cancel. The former leaves out an entire verse (the last) of Psalm 109. Not one of these four Dublin copies has the metrical Psalms attached to it. In the copy which is in Archbishop Marsh's Library, the leaves containing the proscribed "godly prayers” have been rudely torn out by the binder, and applied by him as linings to the leathern covers of his book. n" This volume contains two Dedi"cations, to the King and to the "Queen (different from those which St. Paul's Church-yard.-Bodleian; Sion Coll.; Lambeth; 12°. 1637. The PSALMS, by Sternhold, &c.; London, by A. G., for the The same; Cambridge, by T. Buck and R. Daniel.-Christ Church, Oxford; Publ. Library, Cambridge. The same; London, by E. Griffin and J. Raworth, for the 4o. 8°. 4o. fol. The same, for the Company.-Publ. Libr. Cambridge. 12o. 12o. The same; for the Company. (I have seen it. H. C.) 1638. The PSALMS, by Sternhold, &c.; Cambridge, by T. Buck and fol. Oxford; Publ. Libr. Cambridge. 4o. The same; London, by G. M.; for the Company.-British fol. The same; London, by G. M., for the Company.-British 8o. The same; by the same; London, E. Griffin and J. Raworth, for the Company.-King's Library. fol. The same; London, for the Company.-Museum; P.L. Cambr. 12o. 12°. Sternhold's version, p. 70. See also some interesting notices of Sandys and of his version, in Holland's Psalmists, i. p. 282-291. o The Bodleian copy formerly belonged to Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury. It contains at the end several manuscript particulars respecting members of his family. The PSALMS of DAVID, and other holy Prophets, in verse, by A paraphrase upon the PSALMS, set to new tunes for private 1639. The PSALMS, by Sternhold, &c.; London, by G. M., for the The same; London, by E. G., for the Company.-St. Paul's. lated, by H. Ainsworth; London, by M. Parsons.-Bod- The PSALTER, after the Great Bible, (attached to a Prayerbook ;) London, by R. Barker, and the assigns of John Bill.-Trinity Coll. Dublin. 1640. 4o. fol. The PSALMS, by Sternhold, &c.; London, by E. G., for the Company.-Bodleian; Trinity Coll. Dublin; Lea Wilson. fol. The same; London, by E. G., for the Company. • The author probably is R. Burnaby. Mr. Haslewood, the editor of "Bar"nabies Journal," in 1820, claimed this version as Richard Brathwaite's, and the portrait prefixed, as his. See vol. i. p. 357, &c. of that edition, for the reasons which led Mr. H. to that conclusion. The volume has an engraved frontispice, containing in an oval over a portrait of the author, "The Psalmes " of David the Kinge and of other holy "prophets paraphras'd, by R. B., Esq., "London, printed for Francis Constable, 4o. "with the Hebrew Veritie, set forth by "B. Arias Montanus, together with the "Latine, Greek Septuagint, and Chal"dee Paraphrase. By R. B., London, 66 66 printed by Robert Young, for Francis "Constable, &c., 1638." Collation,— Title; "The authors observed in this paraphrase," I page, reverse blank; the Text, p. 1-300; after the 150 Psalms follows one from Apollinarius, on David's combat with Goliah; a dedicatory memorial to Bishop Lancelot Andrewes, the author's tutor, under whose auspices the work was commenced, 1 leaf; Errata, I page; reverse blank. See some remarks on this edition, in Holland's Psalmists, i. p. 291. |