1850. The HOLY BIBLE, containing the OLD and NEW TESTAMENTS, with the Apocryphal Books, in the earliest English versions, made from the Latin Vulgate, by John Wycliffe and his followers; edited by the Rev. Josiah Forshall, F.R.S., &c., late fellow of Exeter College, and Sir Frederick Madden, K. H. F. R. S., &c., keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum, 4 vols.; Oxford, at the University Press. -Bodleian. The Book of PROVERBS, in prose and verse; by R. Cobbold; A new translation of ST. PAUL'S EPISTLE to the ROMANS; with a commentary and notes, by W. W. Ewbank; London.British Museum. 12°. EDITIONS OF THE PSALMS, FROM THE YEAR 1505 TO 1850. REIGN OF KING HENRY VII. 1505. THE FRUYTFUL SAYNGES of DAVIDE, in the seven penitential 4o. No edition. 1506, 1507. 1508. The same; London, by Wynken de Worde.-Publ. Libr. Cambridge; St. Paul's; St. John's Coll. Cambridge; Chichester Cathedral; Earl Spencer. KING HENRY VIII. 1509. 4o. The same; London, by Wynken de Wordec.-Brit. Museum ; Bodleian; Publ. Libr. Cambridge; Bp. Daly; Lea Wilson. 4o. a These seven Psalms, with several others, and also portions of the Gospels and of the Old Testament, translated from the Vulgate, are found in many (but not in all) editions of the Salisbury Primer; (I have inserted such as I have had opportunities of seeing.) The version does not always agree with this by Bishop Fysher. b The copy at St. Paul's is a fine one; that in the Public Library at Cambridge is printed upon vellum. A similar copy is said to be in the Public Library of Douay in Flanders, [Notes and Queries, iv. No. 109. The remark there made, that the sermons are ten, not seven, perhaps arose from the circumstance that three of the seven, viz. those on Ps. 37, 50, and 101, are in two parts.] Title, bearing the royal portcullis between a dragon and a greyhound; the Text, ending on fol. 146, with the printer's colophon; the leaves are not numbered; there are no running titles. This edition may be distinguished from that of the next year by a portcullis figured in the first initial letter F. The volume is not paged. It ends on sign. & & vi. as the preceding edition. 1510. The same; London, by R. Pynsond. (See Dibdin's Ames, vol. ii. p. 427.)-Bodleian; Lea Wilson. No edition. 1511-1518. 1519. [In former lists appeared notice of an edition of Bishop Fysher's PSALMS, printed in this year, by John Daye. No such book can be discovered. Daye did not commence printing, till many years afterwards.] 1520-1524. No edition. 1525. The same; London, by Wynken de Wordes.-Christ Church, No edition. 1526-1528. 1529. 4o. 4°. The same; London, by Wynken de Wordef.-Earl Spencer; 1530. The PSALTER, translated from the Latin version of Feline, (i. e. d Contains title; the text, sign a ii. -& vi. e Contains title; the text, sign a ii, & vi. The title omits the words "ryght "reverent." Text, A. ii.-& vi. g It is well known, that Martin Bucer was induced by his friends in France and Germany to publish under the assumed name of Aretius Felinus. The version, from which this English translation was made, was published at Strasburgh in 1529. For a specimen and description of this volume, see the Appendix, infra. A transcript of Psalm 95 from this edition, and from George 18°. 1531, or 1532. The SEVEN PENITENTIAL PSALMS; contained in an English No edition. 1533. 1534. DAVID'S PSALTER; translated from the Latin (of Friar Felix, 24°. 16o. A Paraphrase on the PSALMS; by Jo. Campensis; no place, nor printer's name1.-Lea Wilson; Mr. Herbert. The same; London, in the house of Thomas Gybsoni.-Lea 12o. 1535. The same; to which is added the Book of ECCLESIASTES; no "new Saynt, Syr Thomas Hytton the "heretike that was burned in Kente, "of whom I shall tell you more after. "Him have they sette on St. Matthie "hys even, by the name of St. Tho 66 mas the Martyr." (More's English Works, p. 343.) And among the books publicly condemned by name, by authority of Stokesley, bishop of London, on Advent Sunday, 1531, we find "The "Psalter in English, by Joye." (See Anderson, i. 306.) h Title, in a neat wooden border; reverse blank; To the reader, 2 pages; Text, a iii.& viii. reverse. i See Dibdin, iii. p. 401. John Campensis was Reader of 24o. 40 Hebrew in the University of Louvaine. Scriptores," enumerates among the pieces translated by Coverdale, "Psal"terium Joannis Campensis, lib. i.” 1 The former of these two is contained in the "Prymer in Englyshe;" and the latter in the "Goodly Prymer, the Eng"lish newely corrected and printed," supposed by Sir Thomas More to have been translated into English by George Joye. Both editions are of great rarity, especially the former. See some account of them, in Herbert, p. 484-5; Collier's Ecclesiastical History; Strype's Eccle Library; Public Library, Cambridge; Emmanuel Coll., (on 1536. PSALMS LI. and xxx. with an exposition, by Hierome of Ferrarye; Rouen; no name.-Queen's College, Oxford. 1537. The same; London, by Robert Redman.-(See Herbert, p.396.) 1538. PSALMS LI. (and xxx.); with an exposition, by Hierome of Ferrarye; Parys; no name". -Bodleian; Trinity College, Cambridge; St. Paul's; Lea Wilson. 1539. The same; London, by Roberte Redman.-Dr. Bliss. *GOOSTLY PSALMES and SPIRITUAL SONGES; drawen out of the siastical Memorials; and the book entitled, "Three Primers put forth in the "reign of King Henry VIII." edited by Dr. Edward Burton, Oxford, 1834. m This has been reprinted, in Coverdale's Remains, 1846. Psalms li. and xxx. on fresh signa- p The full title of this extremely rare and almost unnoticed volume is as follows: Goostly psalmes and spiritual songes drawen out of the "holy Scripture, for the comfort and consolacyon of such as love to re"joyse in God and his worde." See a particular description of the book, and a specimen of the versification, in the Appendix. See also Holland's Psalmists of Britain, i. p. 88. It has been reprinted, in Coverdale's Remains, 1846. |