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

Accession number: 
PML 2093.2
Author: 
Sternhold, Thomas, -1549.
Published: 
London : Imprinted for the Company of Stationers, 1635.
Description: 
330, [6] p. : music
Notes: 

"Cum privilegio Regis Regali."
Title vignette.
On p. 3-28 other hymns have been added, also on p. 320-330.

Binding: 
English embroidered dos à dos binding, on white satin, ca. 1640, with gilt gauffered edges; in olive green morocco case. The binding is probably the work of Mary Collet, niece of Nicholas Ferrar, one of the "Nuns of Little Gidding".
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