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    The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre, commonly called the Bay Psalm Book, is a metrical psalter first printed in 1640 in...
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    remaining first-edition copies of the Bay Psalm Book. The Bay Psalm Book, printed in 1640 by Stephen Daye, "was the first book printed in the what became the...
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    Psalm 23 is the 23rd psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "The Lord is my shepherd". In Latin, it is known by the...
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    Psalms (redirect from Psalm)
    Psalm 14 = 53, Psalm 70 = 40:14–18. Other such duplicated portions of psalms are Psalm 108:2–6 = Psalm 57:8–12; Psalm 108:7–14 = Psalm 60:7–14; Psalm...
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    Hymnal (redirect from Hymn book)
    teaching. The first hymnal, and also the first book, printed in British North America, is the Bay Psalm Book, printed in 1640 in Cambridge, Massachusetts...
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    November 2013, he bought a copy of the Bay Psalm Book for $14.1 million, the highest price ever paid for a printed book, and pledged to lend it to public collections...
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    Psalter (redirect from Psalterium (book))
    translation of the Book of Psalms into Polish by Jan Kochanowski, 1579 Scottish Psalter, 1635 and 1650 Bay Psalm Book, 1640, the first book printed in British...
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  • Elizabeth Glover (category American book publishers (people))
    Massachusetts, where she printed Oath of a Freeman, An Almenack, and the Bay Psalm Book with the help of printer Stephen Daye. She married Henry Dunster, first...
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    North America — indeed the first publication of any kind — was the Bay Psalm Book of 1640. Many American composers[who?] of this period worked (like Benjamin...
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  • surviving copies of the Bay Psalm Book—the earliest extant book printed in British North America and the most expensive printed book in the world. Other holdings...
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    shape notes include the 9th edition of the Bay Psalm Book (Boston), and An Introduction to the Singing of Psalm Tunes in a Plaine & Easy Method by Reverend...
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    → 2022 | Inflation Calculator". Retrieved 30 July 2022. "BBC News: Bay Psalm Book is most expensive printed work at $14.2m". BBC News. 27 November 2013...
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    religious, and one of the earliest books of poetry published was the Bay Psalm Book (1640), a set of translations of the biblical Psalms; however, the translators'...
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  • Mason pushed American music towards a European model. The Bay Psalm Book (The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre) was published...
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    inadequacies of the Sternhold and Hopkins version. The Bay Psalm Book (1640), the first book published in the British colonies in America, was a new...
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    plain printed label of Stephen Daye, the Massachusetts printer of the Bay Psalm Book, 1642. The history of the bookplate as a symbolical and decorative print...
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    Stephen Daye (category English emigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony)
    became the first printer in colonial America. He printed the Bay Psalm Book in 1640, the first book known to have been printed in the present day United States...
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    translate the Bay Psalm Book from the original Hebrew, for Stephen Daye, a London printer who took his press to the colony and published the first book in the...
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    famous volumes held by the Society is a copy of the first book printed in America, the Bay Psalm Book. AAS has one of the largest collections of newspapers...
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    president of Harvard College where religious materials such as the Bay Psalm Book were published in the 1640s. Elizabeth Glover married president of Harvard...
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    method was never widely received. Before this, the 9th edition of the Bay Psalm Book (Boston, USA) had appeared with the initials of four-note syllables...
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  • Thomas Mayhew (category English emigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony)
    and adjacent islands in 1642. He is one of the editors of the Bay Psalm Book, the first book published in the Thirteen Colonies. His assistant Peter Foulger...
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    Magna Carta, and on early American printing, featuring the Rubenstein Bay Psalm Book. Onsite access to the Library of Congress has been increased. Billington...
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  • of the Rare Book Room at the Library of Congress. DeHaven's house was found to be the hiding place for a first edition of the Bay Psalm Book, which was...
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    century were the Scottish Psalter of 1635 and the Bay Psalm Book of 1640, which was the first book printed in America.: 47  Seventeenth-century Reformed...
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    A. S. W. Rosenbach (category American book and manuscript collectors)
    Gutenberg Bibles, more than 30 Shakespeare's First Folios, a copy of the Bay Psalm Book and the manuscripts of Ulysses and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
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    Bible passage, and a ruling elder then led in singing a Psalm, usually from the Bay Psalm Book. The pastor then preached for an hour or more, and the teacher...
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    John Carter Brown Library (category Rare book libraries in the United States)
    highlights include the best preserved of eleven extant copies of Bay Psalm Book, the first book printed in British North America, a Shakespeare First Folio...
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    European book". BBC News. 17 April 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2019. "The St Cuthbert Gospel". British Library. Retrieved 8 February 2020. "Bay Psalm Book is...
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    Psalm 37 is the 37th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou...
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