Accession number
PML 129885
Published
En tē Kantabrigia : Exetypōthē par' Iōannou Phieldou, 1665.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Safford Bonnell, 1969.
Notes
Greek title romanized.
In Greek type throughout (except for the signature series).
Uniform with this, Field printed editions of the Greek O.T. and N.T. which are often bound up with it, or bound uniformly with it.
Translation by "I.D.", i.e. J. Duport.
There are two typesettings with this title and imprint. Library's copy has line 6 of title page in capital letters and the "Alma mater Cantabrigia" device on verso of last page of the Psalter.
The Psalter (and parts following it) has a separate pagination, and signature series.
Library's copy lacks the title-page reading "Psaltērion tou Dabid. Kata tous Hebdomēkonta ..."
Formerly with MA 2696; transferred from the Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts, 2007.
In Greek type throughout (except for the signature series).
Uniform with this, Field printed editions of the Greek O.T. and N.T. which are often bound up with it, or bound uniformly with it.
Translation by "I.D.", i.e. J. Duport.
There are two typesettings with this title and imprint. Library's copy has line 6 of title page in capital letters and the "Alma mater Cantabrigia" device on verso of last page of the Psalter.
The Psalter (and parts following it) has a separate pagination, and signature series.
Library's copy lacks the title-page reading "Psaltērion tou Dabid. Kata tous Hebdomēkonta ..."
Formerly with MA 2696; transferred from the Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts, 2007.
Description
[36], 126, [2], 171, [1] p. ; 14 cm (12mo in 6s).
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed Jane B. Morgan, 1813; inscribed "A Memorial of Mrs. Morgan Presented to Revd. P. Bronte, B.A. Haworth, Sept. 29th 1827" and in a third hand, "Presented by the Revd. Wm. Morgan, B.D. -- Octr. 2nd: 1827".
With verses in pencil on the recto of the last page beginning "And is this Greece is this the land I sing," possibly in the hand of Branwell Brontë.
With verses in pencil on the recto of the last page beginning "And is this Greece is this the land I sing," possibly in the hand of Branwell Brontë.
Provenance
Jane Morgan; the Rev. William Morgan; Patrick Brontë; Brontë sale (Sotheby 26 July 1907, lot 5); the Bonnell Brontë Collection.
Binding
Brown calf, panel design stamped in blind.
Classification
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