Sternhold and Hopkins, The Whole Book of Psalms in Metre

<body><msnavigation dir="ltr" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><msnavigation valign="top"> <h1 ALIGN="CENTER"><b><font FACE="Bookman Old Style, Times New Roman, Times, Serif" SIZE="3"> The Whole<br></font> <font FACE="Bookman Old Style, Times New Roman, Times, Serif" SIZE="6">Book of Psalms<br></font> <font FACE="Bookman Old Style, Times New Roman, Times, Serif" SIZE="3">Collected into<br></font> <font FACE="Bookman Old Style, Times New Roman, Times, Serif" SIZE="5">English Metre</font></font></b></h1> <h2 ALIGN="CENTER"><font FACE="Bookman Old Style, Times New Roman, Times, Serif"> By<br> Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins,<br> and Others</h2></font> <p ALIGN="CENTER"><font FACE="Bookman Old Style, Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Conferred with the Hebrew:</p></font> <blockquote> <p ALIGN="CENTER"><font FACE="Bookman Old Style, Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Set forth and allowed to be Sung in all Churches, of all the People together, before and after Morning and Evening Prayer; and also before and after Sermons; and moreover in private Houses, for their godly Solace and comfort: laying apart all ungodly Songs and Ballads, which tend only to the nourishing of Vice, and corrupting of youth.</p> </blockquote> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Stereotype edition</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">OXFORD:</p> <i> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Printed at the Clarendon press,<br> </i><b>By Bensley, Cooke, and Collingwood,</b></p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Printers to the University:</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">And sold by E. Gardner, at the Oxford Bible Warehouse, Paternoster Row, London</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">1812</font></p> <blockquote> <p align="center"><small><img border="0" src="../images/narule.gif" width="300" height="10"></small></p> </blockquote> <p align="center"><em>The Old Version psalms on this web site are transcribed from a book whose title page reads as above. The first edition of this psalter was published in 1562, some 250 years before our copy!</em><a name="hist"></a></p> <p>Originally published by John Day of London in 1562. Sternhold and Hopkins was the first complete English language version of the Psalms. It remained the standard version in England for almost two hundred years. </p> <h3>English Beginnings</h3> <p>The Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter actually had its beginning about 14 years before it was published in its final form. The exact date is not known for certain, but 1548 is generally accepted as the year when Thomas Sternhold published his first collection of 19 Psalms (Ps 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 20, 25, 27, 29, 32, 33, 41, 49, 73,  78, 103,  120, 122, and 138)<sup>1</sup>   This collection was dedicated to King Edward VI and was titled "Certayne P<small>SALMES </small>chose out of the P<small>SALTER</small> <small>OF</small> D<small>AVID</small>, and drawe into English metre, by Thomas Sternhold grome of Ye Kynges Maiesties roobes." Sternhold had expressed his intent to versify more of the Psalms, but he died shortly after the first edition was published.<br>      In 1549 a posthumus edition of Sternhold's Psalms was published, this time containing 37 Psalms by Sternhold and an additional seven by John Hopkins. This edition was titled "<em>Al suche Psalmes of </em>D<small>AVID</small><em> as </em>Thomas Sternholde, late grome of ye Kinges Maiesties Robes didde in hys lyfe tyme draw into English metre."</p> <p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them. </p> <p align="center"><a href="../library/oldver.htm">The Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter (Day's Psalter)</a><br> <br> <a href="oldver_index.htm">Index of Sternhold and Hopkins Psalms</a> on this site</p> <p align="center"> </p> </td></tr></table><msnavigation border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td> <p align="center"><img border="0" src="../images/narule.gif" width="300" height="10"> <small><br> Page Copyright 2001, <a target="_parent" href="/cgmusic.com/">Music for the Church of God</font></a><br> e-mail us at:<a href="mailto:webmaster@cgmusic.com"> webmaster@cgmusic.com</a><br> Page last modified on: 07/29/2004</font> <img src="../../cgmusic/home.asp" alt="" border="0" WIDTH="0" HEIGHT="0" lowsrc="../../cgmusic/images/pixel.gif"> </small></p> </td></tr></table></body>