Title
The whole booke of psalmes collected into Englishe meter by Thomas Sternh. Iohn Hopkins and others ; conferred with the Hebrue, with apt notes to sing them withall. Set forth & allowed to be song in all churches, of all the people together before and after morning and euening prayer: as also before and after sermons, & moreouer in priuate houses, for their godly solace and co[m]fort, laying apart all vngodly songs and ballades, which tend onely to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth.
Note
IMPRINT:
Imprinted at London : by Iohn Day ..., 1583.
FORMAT:
[9], 89, [5] pages : music ; 29 cm. (folio)
Signatures: A-H⁶ I⁴ [I3 signed 'I5'].
CONTENT:
Pages 19, 24, 46, 55, 68, 76 and 83 wrongly numbered 61, 42, 48, 56, 64, 65 and 73; number 35 repeated in paging; pages 86-88 without numbers.
Printed in two columns.
Title within ornamental border.
CONDITION:
Copy imperfect: Pages 61-62 torn with some loss of text; Lacks all after page 62.
REFERENCES:
STC (2nd ed.) 2462.