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The Psalter, or, Psalms of David in English verse : autograph manuscript, [ca. 1839].

BIB_ID
105009
Accession number
MA 217.1-5
Creator
Keble, John, 1792-1866.
Display Date
[ca. 1839].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
5 v., bound ; 17.4-19.2 cm
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1907.
Summary
Autograph manuscript in four notebooks (MA 217.1-4) of Keble's metrical translation of the Psalms into English. With the author's corrections and alterations of Psalms 1 to 150 (excepting Psalms 53, 69, 70 and 2 parts of 71). MA 217.5 is a section of page proofs of Psalms, with the author's manuscript corrections, sewn in a gathering of 25 p. (formerly laid in vol. 2).
Housed in
Two blue cloth drop-spine boxes (21 cm)