The Earliest Complete English Prose Psalter, Together With Eleven Cancticles, and a Translation of the Athanasian Creed, Vol. 1

Excerpt from The Earliest Complete English Prose Psalter, Together With Eleven Cancticles, and a Translation of the Athanasian Creed, Vol. 1: Edited From the Only Two Mss. In the Libraries of the British Museum and of Trinity College, Dublin, With Preface, Introduction, Notes, and Glossary; Preface and Text The oldest English Psalter is anglo-saxon; only the first 50 Psalms are in Prose, and are ascribed to King Alfred. There are several Old English interlinear versions, glossing the Latin word by word and during the middle-english period the Psalter was repeatedly translated into English Verse. Most of these older versions have been printed; but the Earliest Complete English Prose Psalter,1 which at the same time is also the earliest version in English prose of any entire book of Scripture, is now published for the first time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.