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	UVa Library: Exhibits: Lift Every Voice
		During the mid-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, psalmody-the singing of psalms according to metrical schemes found in psalters-was the music of devotion and recreation for the inhabitants of the British colonies.
		Each psalm could be sung to any one of a number of tunes, as long as the number of syllables in the text matched the metrical scheme of the melody.
		As a scion of the illustrious Mather dynasty and therefore connected with the Bay Psalm Book, Cotton Mather served as pastor of the Second Church of Boston from 1685 to his death.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /small/exhibits/music/hymns.html (680 words)

	Bay Psalm Book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The early residents of the Massachusetts Bay Colony brought with them several books of psalms: the Ainsworth Psalter (1612), compiled by Henry Ainsworth for use by Puritan "separatists" in Holland; the Ravenscroft Psalter (1621); and the Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter (1562, of which there were several editions).
		The first edition of the Bay Psalm Book to include music was the ninth edition, of 1698.
		Ten copies of the first edition of the Bay Psalm Book are known still to exist, one of them in the Library of Congress.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bay_Psalm_Book (310 words)

	The Bay Psalm Book (1640) and The New England Primer (1683?)
		The psalm book reflects a concern about making worship contemporary, particular to their time and place and special circumstances as pilgrims to a new land.
		The psalms are "contested" versions, retranslated to mark a cultural and religious difference from those versions widely used in Europe and England, as well as to distinguish the Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritans from the Plymouth Pilgrims, who used the Sternhold-Hopkins Psalter of 1562.
		The psalm book, written and printed by the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1640, was designed to allow a whole congregation to sing psalms together in church and at home.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/bayprime.html (825 words)

	The Rare Book Market Today William Bill Reese
		There are no publicly held rare book firms, and although a few have multiple owners or are held by employee trusts, the majority are single-owner or family concerns with less than no interest in divulging their finances.
		In this sense, there is a good argument that rare books as a class have been undervalued and out of favor, and that some of the leaps forward of recent times reflect new buyers recognizing this and restoring books to something like their old position in the overall framework of value.
		By my guesstimates, the auction markets in rare books are a quarter or less of the total market, but the impact of the two major houses on the high end of the market, and its tone, have been greater than their actual market share.
	www.mormonism.com /Reese.htm (8525 words)

	Books: Preserving the Nation's Heritage at the Library of Congress
		This orderly book kept by Major William Peters at Fort Greenville (Northwest Territory) from November 11, 1793, to July 22, 1794, preceding General Anthony Wayne's momentous battle of Fallen Timbers provides a vivid description of the operations of the U.S. Army on the western frontier.
		This law book was among 2,600 volumes from the book collections of the Romanov family were purchased in the early 1930s by the Library through a New York book dealer.
		The Book of Sermons by the Martyred would-be Messiah Shlomo Molcho
	www.loc.gov /preserv/bachbase/bbcbooks.html (2524 words)

	Heath Anthology of American LiteratureThe Bay Psalm Book - Author Page
		The Bay Psalm Book was the collaborative project of over twelve leading Puritan divines and the first publishing venture of the Massachusetts colony.
		Psalm singing continued to be considered an important means by which the general population could learn the cultural text through the eighteenth century and into the nineteenth century.
		Both the Psalm Book and the Primer are evolving texts, whose frequent revisions show their valued yet contested status as cultural transmissions.
	college.hmco.com /english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/colonial/thebaypsalmbook.html (563 words)

	America’s First Book (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Bay Psalm Book was the first book to be published in the Thirteen Colonies.
		A committee of approximately thirty clergymen, including Richard Mather, John Eliot, and Thomas Weld, refashioned the psalms into crude verse forms, and the Preface was written possibly by Richard Mather; although some history scholars attribute it to John Cotton.
		The book has never been out of print, and although there were only seventeen copies of the first edition printed, it is still available.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/american_poetry/108706 (407 words)

	The Genevan Psalter - Bibliography, Discography and Links
		The psalms are sung in Hungarian to Molnár’s versifications.
		The psalms are sung in French, according to the versifications of Clément Marot and Théodore de Bèze.
		Versifications are from the 1987 Psalter Hymnal and the Book of Praise of the Canadian Reformed Churches.
	genevanpsalter.redeemer.ca /biblio_discography.html (770 words)

	Yale Divinity Library Exhibit: From Psalm Book to Hymnal
		The Psalm books and hymnals in the exhibit are selections from the Lowell Mason Collection of Hymnology.
		Buchanan's translation of the Psalms may fairly be considered one of the representative books of the sixteenth century, expressing, as it does, in consummate form, the conjunction of piety and learning which was the ideal of the best type of humanist.
		Printed in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1640, the Bay Psalm Book was the work of thirty colonial ministers who desired a metrical translation of the Psalms which expressed the meaning of the original Hebrew as precisely as possible.
	www.library.yale.edu /div/hymnexh.htm (1965 words)

	First Reformed Presbyterian Church, Psalms (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is an explanation and defense of the American Puritan understanding that the Book of Psalms is God's hymnbook for the Church.
		From the Preface of The Enigma of the Bay Psalm Book by Zoltán Haraszti.
		Sung using The Book of Psalms for Singing; Copyright by The Board of Education and Publication, Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America and is distributed by Crown & Covenant Publications.
	www.reformedprescambridge.com /psalms.html (261 words)

	§6. "The Bay Psalm Book". IX. The Beginnings of Verse, 1610–1808. Vol. 15. Colonial and Revolutionary ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Bay Psalm Book, as it came to be called, was the first book published on American soil, and passed through twenty-seven editions between 1640 and 1752, when it was superseded by John Barnard’s New Version of the Psalms of David.
		It is unfair, however, to take The Bay Psalm Book as an index to the poetic taste of its period, or its subsequent popularity as indicating anything more than its usefulness.
		It was a makeshift, and they knew it was a poor one; an edition “revised and refined” by John Dunster and Richard Lyon followed in 1647.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/225/0906.html (369 words)

	The Genevan Psalter - Bibliography, Discography and Links (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The psalms are sung in Hungarian to Molnár’s versifications.
		The psalms are sung in French, according to the versifications of Clément Marot and Théodore de Bèze.
		Versifications are from the 1987 Psalter Hymnal and the Book of Praise of the Canadian Reformed Churches.
	www.redeemer.on.ca /academics/polisci/biblio_discography.html (642 words)

	1640 Bay Psalm Book The following is the preface to the Bay Psalm book
		Thirdly, because the book of psalms is so complete a system of psalms, which the Holy Ghost himself in infinite wisdom has made to suit all conditions, necessities, temptations, affections, etc.
		First, David’s psalms as has been shown, were sung in heart and voice together by the twenty-four orders of the musicians of the Temple, who typed out the twenty-four Elders all the members especially of Christian Churches Rev.
		As for the scruple that some take at the translation of the Book of Psalms into metre, because David’s psalms were sung in his own words without metre: we answer—First, there are many verses together in several psalms of David which run in rhythms (as those that know Hebrew and as Buxtorf shows Thesau.
	www.apuritansmind.com /PuritanWorship/Preface1640BayPsalmBook.htm (1782 words)

	Bay Psalm Book
		The fascination which this book has long held for many stems in part from the fact that it was the first book printed in America.
		The printing of this first book has long been attributed to Stephen Daye, though Daye was apparently known to be a locksmith in his hometown of Cambridge.
		The Bay Psalm Book and the many versions of the Psalms since, demonstrate that so long as there is any capacity for poetry in the human soul, the Book of Psalms will doubtlessly continue to be a favorite in every generation, regardless of culture or era.
	www.biblecollectors.org /bay_psalm_book.htm (1106 words)

	Bay Psalm Book (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Haraszti's The enigma of the Bay Psalm book, 1956, p.
		The Bay Psalm book; being a facsimile reprint of the first edition, printed by Stephen Daye at Cambridge, in New England in 1640, with an introduction by Wilberforce Eames.
		"The edition of this facsimile reprint of the Bay Psalm book is limited to 1000 copies, of which 25 copies are on Japan paper and 975 on plain paper." The introduction contains a list of the 10 copies of the first edition of the Bay Psalm book known to be extant, with their present locations.
	www.sims.berkeley.edu /academics/courses/is182/s01/first1.html (237 words)

	Psalm Singing - Metrical Psalters and Tunes to Sing Psalms
		Psalms "Imitated in the Language of the New Testament"
		Over the years many poets, ministers and simple lay-members have set Psalms or other scriptures into rhyme and metre so that they could be sung in English.
		The Workshop is designed to help you find words of a Psalm or other scripture that you would like to use for a hymn and then to find music that can be used with those words.
	www.cgmusic.com /workshop (381 words)

	PAL:The Bay Psalm Book (1640) and The New England Primer (1683? 1690)
		PAL:The Bay Psalm Book (1640) and The New England Primer (1683?
		Dorenkamp, J.H. "The Bay Psalm Book and the Ainsworth Psalter." Early American Literature 7 (1972): 3-16.
		BS1440.B415 H3 Holtgen, Karl J. "New Verse by Francis Quarles: The Portland Manuscripts, Metrical Psalms, and the Bay Psalm Book." English Literary Renaissance 28.1 (Wint 1998): 118-41.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap1/bay_psalm.html (329 words)

	Dr. Gene Scott Bible Collection Tour, Station 45 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Massachusetts Bay, however, the Puritan colonists who landed there in 1629-1630 used the Sternhold & Hopkins version often bound with contemporary Bibles (and first included in editions of the Geneva Bible).
		The small duodecimo size was indicative of the limited technical means available to the colonial printers; Daye had only arrived in 1638 together with a printing press, and the "Bay Psalm Book" has the distinction of being the first book printed in British America.
		Printings of the "Bay Psalm Book" were made in England and Scotland; while some were retained for local use (for example, by Presbyterians throughout Scotland), many were exported back to the colonies.
	www.drgenescott.com /stn45.htm (415 words)

	Bay Psalm Book
		Haraszti's The enigma of the Bay Psalm book, 1956, p.
		The Bay Psalm book; being a facsimile reprint of the first edition, printed by Stephen Daye at Cambridge, in New England in 1640, with an introduction by Wilberforce Eames.
		"The edition of this facsimile reprint of the Bay Psalm book is limited to 1000 copies, of which 25 copies are on Japan paper and 975 on plain paper." The introduction contains a list of the 10 copies of the first edition of the Bay Psalm book known to be extant, with their present locations.
	www2.sims.berkeley.edu /courses/is182/s02/first1.html (237 words)

	Bay Psalm Book on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Written by Richard Mather, John Eliot, and Thomas Weld, it was published in 1640 at Cambridge as The Whole Book of Psalms Faithfully Translated into English Metre.
		The announced effort of the authors to make a literal rendering at the expense of elegance is successful if the crudity of the verse be a criterion.
		This was the first book published in the Thirteen Colonies.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/bayp1salm.asp (273 words)

	World Magazine - Weekly News \| Christian Views
		I should have known, but didn't until last week, that the very first book published and printed in New England by the Puritans was the Bay Psalm Book.
		Which suggests, I think, why the Bay Psalm Book became a natural top-of-the-list choice for the Puritans during the 1620s and 1630s.
		For them, the printing of the Bay Psalm Book in 1640 wasn't some ceremonial publishing event to celebrate their first two decades in the New World.
	www.worldmag.com /displayarticle.cfm?id=2850 (840 words)

	Beautiful Facsimiles of Rare Bibles! 1611 King James Bible, 1560 Geneva Bible, 1536 Tyndale NT, 1640 Bay Psalm Book and ...
		1611 King James Bible, 1560 Geneva Bible, 1536 Tyndale NT, 1640 Bay Psalm Book and 1841 English Hexapla
		Featuring Books Relating to the Teaching of Dr. Gene Scott
		A new, digital replica of this classic text is brought back to life by Lazarus Ministry Press in association with Vintage Archives, laminated softcover on acid-free paper, 8" x 10 3/4", 132 pages (1999).
	www.capstonebooks.com /orig/pages/bible_facsimile.html (188 words)

	First 100 Years of Printing in British N. America
		The two terminal points of the current exhibition, the Bay Psalm Book and the first American cookbook, provide a metaphor for this passage from the sacred to the utilitarian in the output of American presses.
		One book survives signed and dated by him in 1697, when he was ten, and he describes at length in his Chronological History his early reading on the history of Massachusetts, beginning with Morton's New-England's Memorial and including exclusively American imprints excepting Mather's Magnalia.
		They wished their books to be beautiful physical objects as well as interesting rarities, and here, of course, few early American imprints filled the bill unaltered.
	www.reeseco.com /papers/first100.htm (11531 words)

	Chapter Puritan Poetry in New England of Index by Simonds History of American Literature
		If poetry be rare among our forefathers, it is nevertheless true that the first English book printed in America passed for poetry with them, and for poetry of an edifying and noble type.
		The Whole Booke of Psalmes, commonly known as the Bay Psalm Book, was printed on the new press at Cambridge in 1640.
		This work, designed to provide a metrical version of the Psalms of David, to be used in the churches, contains the joint efforts of three New England ministers -- "the chief divines in the country," -- Richard Mather of Dorchester, Thomas Welde, and John Eliot, of Roxbury.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/270/1820/21953/1.html (536 words)

	No. 733: First U.S. Press
		The Bay Psalm Book was both ambitious and crude -- a formidable achievement under the worst conditions.
		The full title of the Bay Psalm Book was The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre.
		Such Psalm paraphrases were a variable art form from the 16th century well into the 18th.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi733.htm (526 words)

	The Bay Psalm Book - Anonymous - Free Books 5000.com
		Bay Psalm Book(1640) The first bond work printed in the American colonies, The Bay Psalm Book (The Whole Booke of Psalms Faithfully Translated into English Meter) is a metrical translation of the Psalms.
		It was published in 1640 in a printing of 1,700 copies by Stephen Daye of Cambridge, the owner of the first printing press in the colonies.
		OK, you can read every word In The Bay Psalm Book, but unless you get the CD, look at what you WON'T be able to do.
	www.freebooks5000.com /books/summary-WL_TBPB.htm (719 words)

	RBS 2003 Course Evaluations: The Music of America on Paper
		We were able to see Bay Psalm books and Thomas Jefferson's music materials, which can only be accessed in Special Collections.
		Viewing of the Bay Psalm Book, a high point, of course, as well as the Jefferson personal collection which was retrieved at Jane Penner's request.
		There were two managers of a Special Collections Library or Museum (22.5%), two catalog librarians (22.5%), one music librarian (11%), one specialist librarian with some rare book duties (11%), one archivist or manuscript librarian (11%), one general librarian with some rare book duties (11%), and one general librarian with no rare book duties (11%).
	www.virginia.edu /oldbooks/evals03/32_krummel.html (1473 words)

	Preface to the Bay Psalm Book (1640) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Touching the first, certainly the singing of David’s psalms was an acceptable worship of God, not only in his, but in succeeding times.
		But why may not one compose a psalm and sing it alone with a loud voice and the rest join with him in silence and in the end say amen.
		If such a practice was found in the Church of Corinth, when any had a psalm suggested by an extraordinary gift; yet in singing ordinary psalms the whole Church is to join together in heart and voice to praise the Lord.—for—
	www.covenanter.org /Worship/prefacebaypsalms.htm (1542 words)

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