The Whole booke of Psalmes / collected into English meter by Tho. Sternhold, John Hopkins, W. Whittingham and others ; conferred with the Hebrew ; with apt notes to sing them withall ; newly set forth, and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together, before and after morning and evening prayer, and also before and after sermons, moreover in private houses, for their godly solace and comfort, laying apart all ungodly songs and ballads, which tend only to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth.

Accession number: 
PML 199188
Author: 
Sternhold, Thomas, -1549, translator.
Published: 
London : Imprinted for the Company of Stationers, 1641.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description: 
[1], 64, 64-94, 96-173, [18] leaves ; 9 cm (32mo)
Binding: 
17th-century English (or Netherlandish?) pierced silver cover over pink silk covered paper boards; two clasps. Silver engraved with a hunting scene: male hunter with short pants tied at the knee and a lace collar blowing a horn, a dog, a hare, a stag, and a bird, all within a floral and scrolling vine design. In a dark blue morocco case by Duprez Lahey, labeled: The whole book of Psalms, 1641.
Provenance: 
Pierpont Morgan, purchased from J. Pearson & Co., Aug. 1911.
Classification: 
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