many verbal differences in each of them. These all had sixty-two lines on a page, and the catch words in all were alike. There were besides these, two more editions, of November 1540 and November 1541, which were nearly identical with each other, and with the earlier editions, but these had sixty-five lines on a page instead of sixty-two, and on the title page they were stated to have been "oversene and perused" by two Bishops, Tunstall of Durham and Heath of Rochester. From these November editions of 1540 and 1541, our present Psalter seems to have been in the main derived, though with many verbal changes and additions, whether by error or amendment, received from later editions. But since the musical colon is not given in the Psalter of any of the Great Bibles, with the exception of the late edition of 1562, our Prayer Book Psalter, which has always had the colon, would seem to have been taken directly from the earlier separate editions of the Psalter in 1548, 1549, 1552, 1560, 1565 and 1574, for all of these were "poincted" or "corrected and poyncted," or "perfectly pointed," as it" or "thei" "shall be song in churches." The first separate Psalter of 1548 was undoubtedly taken from the November edition of the Great Bible in 1541, but with sundry further verbal changes (Vide Pss. 58, 66:10(2), 79:6, 109: 1, 115: 9, 135: 7 in the Table). The following Table of Various Readings has been made after a very careful, personal examination of the Great Bibles in the Lenox Library, New York, the Bodleian, Oxford, and the British Museum, London. The editions consulted, and the abbreviations used for them, are as follows: Bps., 1539, first edition (Cromwell's), April 1539. 40 (B), second edition 66 April 1540, Berthelet. "Whytchurche. 40A(G), first edition (Cranmer's), April 1540, Grafton. 40A(W), " 40J, July 1540, Grafton. 66 40N, 41N, November 1540, November 1541, Whitchurch, "oversene" by two bishops. 41M, 41D, May 1541, Whitchurch; December 1541,Grafton. 49, 53(fo), December 1549, 1553, Whitchurch. 62, 1562, Harrison, has musical colon, and the verses numbered. 66, Rouen, 1566, C. Hamilton. Great Bibles-quartos: 1550, Whitchurch; 1552, N. Hyll; 1553(4°), Grafton [the readings of this Bible are frequent in our Psalter]; 1560, 61, J. Cawood; 1569, (1), (2), (3), Cawood [Lea Wilson's Nos. 31, 32, 33]. [Our Psalter follows that of 1569 (1) very closely.] Great Bible Psalter in Bishops' Bibles: 1575(fo), folio of 1575, John Walley. 75(4°), quarto of 1575, R. Jugge. 91, folio of 1591, Deputies of C. Barker. [Our present Psalter corresponds very nearly to that in the last named Bible.] A. V., R. V., "Authorized Version," 1611, in present editions. SEPARATE PSALTERS. 1548, quarto, Grafton, 28 November 1548. 1549, Introit Psalms in A. and M. Library, reprint of folio 1549 (1st Edward VI.). 52(fo), Sentences and Offices in A. and M. Library, reprint of folio 1552 (2d Edward VI.). 59(fo), Sentences and Offices in A. and M. Library, reprint of folio 52, 60, 80, 83, 92, 96, 1559 (Elizabeth). quarto, Whitchurch, 1552. quarto, Jugge and Cawood, 1560. quarto, Daye (or C. Barker), 1583. folio, Deputies of C. Barker, 1592. Vide Ps. 105: 28, quarto, Deputies of C. Barker, 1596. Psalter, C. Barker [1579-1589] Ps. 105: 28. 97(fo), Deputies of C. Barker, 1597. 99(4°), Deputies of C. Barker, 1599. 1603, 04, 33, 39, 60, 1662, A. B., S. B., 1701, 54, 63, 65, folio, before changes of Hampton Court Conference, R. Barker, 1603. folio, R. Barker, 1604 (James I.). quarto, R. Barker, 1633 (Charles I.). Psalter of 1639, R. Barker, in Convocation Prayer Book of 1636. quarto, J. Bill and C. Barker, 1660. folio, His Majesty's printers, 1662 (Charles II.). fac-simile of Annexed Book, MS. Book 1661. Stephens's edition from Sealed Books. octavo, Oxford, 1701. folio, Mark Baskett, London, 1754, Psalter reprinted in Bp. Wilson's Bible, 1785. octavo, Bentham, Cambridge, 1763. quarto, Mark Baskett, London, 1765, in Bible. 1790, 93, 1822, 32, 38, 45, 71, 92, American Prayer Book, standard editions. When dates are given in succession, the century numbers are not repeated. N. B.-The star (*) over any abbreviation marks when an important reading was first introduced or re-introduced. Earle, Rev. John Earle's Reprint of the Psalter of 1539, with Introduction and Notes, London, Murray, 1894. 4:9 makest me dwell........ 39, 40A-41D, etc. 48, 49, e c..... All others makest me to dwell..... 1549, Int. 1 vel paululum, Pagninus, Münster. The addition of "for," enim, is from Münster, as is "vanity," at the end of the verse. thy ryghtewesnesse..... 40A, 49* 5:13 41M, 41D........ 48, 49w. as with a shield (shylde) | C, 39, 40, etc..... 49, 52, 65, 74 1596, A. B., 1662 1549 (Heb. A.V., R.V.) 52.. dominion in the works 39, 40A, 40J.. 48, 49, 65, 74, 49, 96, etc. dominion of the works 40N*-41D,53(4°) 48, 49, 52..... 1549, 96, etc. So spelled in old Prymers and in old English. 2 propter indignationes, Pagninus, Münster; in finibus, Vulgate. 3 opus, Pag. Mün.; opera, Vulg.4 finem in perpetuum, Mün.; in finem,Vulg. 9:15 their own (awne) foot. C, 39, 40A-41D.. 48-74...... 96*; 1600, A.B., 62 - 9:17 unto hell. C, 39, 40A, etc.... 48-74.... into hell... 96*; A. B., etc. 10:5 10:7 God in all his thoughts 40A-41D (Heb., A. V., R.V.)... 48-74........... 96, etc. farre out of his.......... C, M, 39 far above out of his.... 40A-41D [Mün.] 48–74........... 96, etc. cursing, deceit, and cursing, and deceit, and C*,69(1) [Luth.] 65*, 74......... 96, etc. 39, 40A-41D, 49, 48, 49, 52, 60, ["and" before 50, 53 (4°) 69 (3) deceit erased in A. B.] 10:8 lurkynge in the stretes 39............. lurking in the thievish corners of the......... 40A-41D[Mün.] 48–74................... .96, etc. 10:11 fall into the hands of.. 39-49 [Mün]..... 48-74....................... 96 of............ 99*, S.. B., 1662, etc. * in omnibus cogitationibus, ejus, Pag.; suis, Mün. 4 in latibulis, Pag., Mün. (in manum) fortium, Mün. |