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The hymnals of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines and The Hymnal, ... Church and home metrical psalter and hymnal (1862) ... For example, there are churches ...
An example of a 16th-century metrical psalter. A metrical psalter is a kind of Bible translation: a book containing a verse translation of all or part of the Book of Psalms in vernacular poetry, meant to be sung as hymns in a church. Some metrical psalters include melodies or harmonisations.
Some metrical psalters include melodies or even harmonisations. The composition of metrical psalters was a large enterprise of the Protestant Reformation, especially in its Calvinist manifestation. Mostly used in reformed churches, and anabaptists. Some examples of psalters are: Genevan Psalter; German Psalter "des Königlichen Propheten David"
The Mudil Psalter, the oldest complete psalter in the Coptic language, Coptic Museum, Egypt, Coptic Cairo. Non-illuminated psalters written in Coptic include some of the earliest surviving codices (bound books) altogether. The earliest Coptic psalter predates the earliest Western (Irish) one by more than a century.
This work was a metrical version of the Psalms, and largely ousted the old version of T. Sternhold and J. Hopkins' Psalter. Still regularly sung today is their version of Psalm 34 , "Through all the changing scenes of life" (which was improved in the second edition of 1698).
The first hymnal, and also the first book, printed in British North America, is the Bay Psalm Book, printed in 1640 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, [5] [6] a metrical Psalter that attempted to translate the psalms into English so close to the original Hebrew that it was unsingable.
In this dedication he expresses a hope of "travayling further", and "performing the residue" of the Psalter; but his total contribution to the old version consists of only forty psalms. Sternhold is remembered as the originator of the first metrical version of the Psalms which obtained general currency alike in England and Scotland.
In 1559, he obtained a patent for The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Collected into English Meter, a metrical psalter, compiled mostly by Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins, that Day first published in 1562. [23] The Stationers' Company guaranteed Day the right to print all "psalmes in metre with note", in other words, psalms with music.