The Hexaplar Psalter

Excerpt from The Hexaplar Psalter: Being the Book of Psalms in Six English Versions. This was again revised by Coverdale still in the Old Testament under the inuence of Munster and with a Prologue by Cranmer whence it was called Crammer''s Bible was issued in April 1540. It Was succeeded by five other editions in July 1540 November 1540 May 1541 November and December 1541 and''the variations in the Psalter between these six editions and the Great Bible are given in the Appendix. With scarcely any exception the Prayer Book version of the Psalms is the work of Coverdale alone as the result of his three revisions.. The Geneva Version so called from being the work of the English exiles at Geneva in the reign of Mary Tudor was made partly Under the inuence of the French Protestant Version printed there in 1559 and it was published in the following year. The printer was Rowland Hall who at the same time carried on business in London. Whittingham afterwards Dean of Durham Gilby and Sampson are the three names which are associated in the translation.. About the Publisher. Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at forgottenbooks. 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.