The vvhole booke of Psalmes, . collected into English meetre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, conferred with the Hebrue, with apt notes to sing them withall. Set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together before and after morning and euening praier: as also before and after sermons and moreouer in priuate houses, for their godlie solace and comfort, laieng apart all vngodlie songs, and balades, which tend onelie to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth.
John Hopkins (d.1570)
Category
Books
Date
1601
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3052314.4
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10],91,[11]p. . music . 4to in 8s.. Bound with an imperfect copy of the Book of common prayer ([London, 1597?]; "The Bible" (London, 1601); and "Tvvo right profitable and fruitfull concordances" (London, 1602). Not identified in 1768 catalogue.. Provenance: Bookplate: George Harry Grey (1737-1819) after 1768; anonymous armorial variant 2. Franks 12841. manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "The gift of my grandson George Chetwode April 16th 1811. Stamford & Warrington" [i.e. George Harry Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford (1737-1819)].. Binding: Early nineteenth-century diced calf binding; gilt fillet and blind roll pattern border; gilt roll patterns on board edges and turn-ins; gold-tooled spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
John Hopkins (d.1570) Thomas Sternhold (d.1549)