1609 HUGE - ALTER PSALTER - 16 x 11 " PIGSKIN over WOOD

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1609 HUGE - ALTER PSALTER - 16 x 11 inches PIGSKIN over WOOD PLANTIN PSALTER with 100's of Antiphonal leaves. SUPERB!!! Psalterium Romanum, decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum: ex Breviario Romano Clementis VIII. Pont. Max. auctoritate recognito. 2 parts and Supplement in 1 volume. Antwerpen: Off. Plantiniana, Joh. Moretus 1609. Large folio. 16 x 11 inches (42 x 28 cms). 10 leaves, 518 pages, 1 leaf, 415 pages, 4 pages, 1 leaf, 30 pages. COMPLETE !!! With an engraved vignette to the title, a full page engraved plate, woodcut initials and devices. Printed in red and black. Bound in blind stamped pigskin over woodcen boards with remnants of brass ornaments. Vellum marker s of many leaves. RARE ALTER PSALTER The Psalter is the most ancient and the most venerable portion of the Breviary. It consists of 150 psalms, divided in a particular way. These psalms formed the groundwork of the Liturgy of the Jews for twelve centuries before Christ, and He certainly made use of these formularies for His prayers, and quoted them on several occasions. The Apostles followed His example, and handed down to the Christian Churches the inheritance of the Psalter as the chief form of Christian prayer. The Church has carefully preserved them during the lapse of centuries and has never sought to replace them by any other formularies. Attempts have been made from time to time to compose Christian psalms, such as the Gloria in excelsis, the Te Deum, the Lumen Hilare, the Te Decet Laus, and a few others; but those which the Church has retained and adopted are singularly few in number. The rhythmic hymns date from a period later than the fourth and fifth centuries, and at best hold a purely secondary place in the scheme of the Office. Thus the Book of Psalms forms the groundwork of Catholic prayer; the lessons which fill so important a place in this prayer are not, after all, prayer properly so called; and the antiphons, responsories, versicles, etc., are but psalms utilized in a particular manner. The history of the text of this Psalter is interesting. The most ancient Psalter used in Rome and in Italy was the "Psalterium Vetus", of the Itala version, which seems to have been introduced into the Liturgy by Pope St. Damasus (d. 384). He it was who first ordered the revision of the Itala by St. Jerome, in A. D. 383. On this account it has been called the "Psalterium Romanum", and it was used in Italy and elsew till the ninth century and later. It is still in use in St. Peter's at Rome, and many of the texts of our Breviary and Missal still show some variants (Invitatory an Ps. xciv, the antiphons of the Psalter and the responsories of the Proper of the Season, Introits, Graduals, Offertories, and Communions). The Roman Psalter also influences the Mozarabic Liturgy, and was used in England in the eighth century. But in Gaul and in other countries north of the Alps, another recension entered into competition with the "Psalterium Romanum" under the somewhat misleading title of the "Psalterium Gallicanum"; for this text contained nothing distinctively Gallican, being simply a later correction of the Psalter made by St. Jerome in Palestine, in A. D. 392. A superb, is a little used example, of an alter Psalter from the very early 17th Century. Binding rubbed and worn; Spine restored; some tears to endpapers; numerous leaves with marginal tears and restoration to lower margin; a few minor tears caused by the vellum markers; some fingering. WEIGHS SOME 10 KILOS!!!! HENCE SHIPPING COSTS ANTIQUARIAT Daniel Good GmbH, Lucerne, Switzerland. read more

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