CHAPTER 27.
Bound with de Vere's 1570 Geneva Bible is a copy of the Sternhold & Hopkins
metrical
Psalms published in Geneva by John Crespin
dated 1569 (STC 2440a), with an
introductory treatise by Athanasius (figure
eighty-seven). Several Psalms are marked by
the annotator with a pointing hand or other
emblematic device, some in the margins of
the introductory treatise and others in the text
itself. The five Psalms marked in the treatise
are: 8, 11, 15, 23 and 59¹. The sixteen²
Psalms marked in the text are: 12, 25, 30,
31, 51, 61, 65, 66, 67, 77, 103, 137, 139, 145,
146 and Lamentations. Two Genevan
Psalms, one by underlining a line (18.20) and
two by underlined marginal notes (37), are
also marked in the Old Testament of de
Vere's STC 2106.
Before evaluating the potential
significance of these psalm annotations, we
must consider the special methodological
questions which they raise.
Bibliographically, the Psalms present
1
The marked psalm is either 59 or 37.
2
Updated in the third printing by the addition of 51 and 65; 51 is considered in in the appendix B under SD #29 but was
inadverdently omitted from this list.
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Figure Eighty-seven: The Title Page of the de Vere copy of
STC 2440a, The 1569 Genevan Edition of the Sternhold &
Hopkins Metrical Psalms.
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