The Psalter And Martyrology Of Ricemarch

New edition with facing-page translation of a highly significant and influential Old English text.

This edition of the classic Coverdale translation is accompanied by prayers and rubrics from the Liturgical Psalter of the Russian Church, adapted to conform to the Greek Septuagint text.

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Thomas Ravenscroft's Psalter of 1621, from the time of James I and VI, is arguably the first, most comprehensive printed Christian Songbook in the English language, following as it does the more limited Este's Psalter of 1592.