With regard to chronology, it may be roughly asserted that the earliest books which occur are Psalters of the thirteenth century.
But in the thirteenth century and before it, Psalters were in use for this purpose, and the collation of a Psalter is in truth more important than that of a Book of Hours.
One has a melancholy vision of Madame Eglentyne saying psalters interminably through her "tretys" nose, instead of jogging along so gaily with her motley companions and telling so prettily her tale of little St Hugh.
These again are nearly always psalters or service books of one kind or another; and indeed the average layman was more likely to possess these than other books, for all alike attended the services of the church.
The two psaltershe conceives to have been printed from wood.
Among thePsalters is a copy of Archbishop Parker's rare metrical version.
These Psalters are believed to have perished, and any mention of sacred fires in the glossary of Cormac M'Cullenan, the supposed compiler of the Psalter of Cashel, is adverse to their being in towers.
The two juniors appointed by the cantor had meanwhile taken the graduals and psalters from the presses in the choir, and had distributed them to the seniors, juniors, and novices according to their needs.
At a sign from the cantor the novices took the graduals from the choir cupboard, or the psalters if the Mass was de Requiem, and distributed them.
And once more we read of his coming troubled to his master, saying: "You have written, as I have just heard, that in one day I chanted nine psalters with corporeal discipline.
One has a melancholy vision of poor Madame Eglentyne saying psalters interminably through her tretys nose, instead of jogging along so gaily with her motley companions and telling so prettily her tale of little St Hugh.
If any had taken such vows she was to say as many psalters as it would have taken days to perform the pilgrimage so rashly vowed.
The leading anthems, services, and psalters are now published in the Tonic Sol-fa notation, so that boys who have learnt to sing from the letters at school may quickly be put to sing their parts in the church choir.
All compilers of Psalters make rules, but Mr. Young carries them out.
While many of the books copied were for the promotion of the religious service, such as Missals and Psalters (R.
Is it probable that Petrarch's explanation (125) of why many of the older Latin books were copied so infrequently, psalters being preferred instead, is correct?
But let us look at the rooms of the Castle and their beautiful contents--the paintings and embroideries on the walls, the ivories, and the illuminated Psalters and MSS.
Utrecht manuscript, thereby demonstrating, with comparative certainty, that both were taken from some popular prototype, possibly one of the Augustinian Psalters already alluded to.
The continual transcription of Psalters and Missals and other service books must have been infinitely wearisome, at any rate, to the less devout members of the community.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "psalters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
