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The whole booke of Psalmes : with the hymnes evangelicall, and songs spirituall / composed into 4 parts by sundry authors, with such seuerall tunes as haue beene, and are usually sung ... ; also a briefe abstract of the prayse, efficacie, and vertue of the Psalmes ; newly corrected and enlarged Tho. Rauenscroft.

Accession number
PML 198076
Creator
Sternhold, Thomas, -1549.
Published
London : Printed by Thomas Harper for the Company of Stationers, 1633.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
The make-up of the 1st gathering of this book is uncertain; in this copy it consists of 10 leaves, of which the 4th & 9th, 5th & 8th, 6th & 7th are conjugate (these leaves are signed [A]2, A3, A4, [A]5, [A]6, [A]7; the relationship of the 1st 3 unsigned leaves & the last unsigned leaf, to each other or to the other 6 leaves, cannot be seen; the 1st unsigned leaf & leaf [A]2 contain identical title-pages, one of which was probably intended to be cancelled; the 2d & 3d unsigned leaves contain the preface; the rest of the book is signed B-S⁸ (S8 blank); perhaps the prelim. leaves originally collated [-]⁴, A8, with [-]1 & A1 blank.
Sternhold & Hopkins version, with music by various composers.
Errors in paging: 201, 202, 203, 215 and 261 numbered 210, 102, 213, 125 and 361 respectively.
Includes music (4 part harmony, parts printed separately).
Title within border of ornamental panels.
Description
273 p. : music ; 17 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Manuscript notes on front fly leaf.
Provenance
Theodore Irwin, purchased at E.G. Asay sale, Dec. 1881; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Binding
Brown morocco by B.M. Pickering.
Classification
Department