The Massachuset psalter: or, Psalms of David with the Gospel according to John, in columns of Indian and English
Being an introduction for training up the aboriginal natives, in reading and understanding the Holy Scriptures
by Eliot, John
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The Massachuset psalter: or, Psalms of David with the Gospel according to John, in columns of Indian and English: Being an introduction for training up the aboriginal natives, in reading and understanding the Holy Scriptures
1709, Printed by B. Green, and J. Printer, for the Honourable Company for the Propagation of the Gospel in New-England, &c.
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Second title page, facing the English title page reads: Massachusee psalter: asuh, Uk-kuttoohomaongash David weche wunnaunchemookaonk ne ansukhogup John, ut Indiane kah Englishe nepatuhquonkash. Ne woh sogkompagunukhettit kakoketahteaekuppannegk, aketanunnat, kah wohwohtamunat wunnetuppantamwe wussukwhongash, with imprint: Boston, N.E.: Upprinthomunneau B. Green, kah J. Printer, wutche quhtiantamwe chapanukkeg wutche onchekehtouunnat wunnauchummookaonk ut New-England. &c. 1709.
Translation by Experience Mayhew based on John Eliot's translation. According to Trumbull "every verse underwent revision and scarcely one remains without some alteration." Cf. ESTC.
Signatures: [A] B-3E ([A]1 recto, 3E4 blank)
Printed in parallel columns of Massachuset and English.
Errata: p. [406]
Sabin 45537.
Evans 1380.
Pilling, J.C. Algonquian languages, 348.
ESTC W15139.
Digital version available on Internet Archive.
John Carter Brown Library copy 1 imperfect: wanting the Gospel of John, which follows the Psalms.
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 1: "Gift of Mr. Joseph Sewall ... to Edw[ar]d Nicholls July the 25th 1711": presentation inscription on front flyleaf.
John Carter Brown Library copy 2 imperfect: wanting English and Massachuset title pages and all the Psalms before the very end of Psalm X and all of the Gospel of John after chapter XX.
John Carter Brown Library copy 2 bound in contemporary full mottled calf; front board fully detached.
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 2: Brown University: bookstamp on recto of first extant page:
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