THE PSALTER OF DAVID (1530): Courtenay Facsimile 1
Sutton Courtenay, 1971. Limited Edition, no. 161/250. Hardcover. 260 pp. Lithograph facsimile of the 1530 English edition of Martin Bucer's Latin Psalter. Lithographed facsimile in dual-page. Oblong small 8vo, cream cloth, green stamped spine lettering, printer's device to tail of spine and front cover, orange endpapers with printed portrait of Bucer. Some light hand-soil, extremities foxed, two small splotches to edges, very crisp and tight otherwise. None Provided. Item #2409
Bucer composed his Latin Psalter in tandem with his large commentary, which displays his humanistic bonafides, reckoning with the Septuagint and Masoretic manuscripts, as well as the commentary of several rabbis. Presumably translated by George Joye, sometime compatriot of Tyndale and pirater of his New Testament. Joye's occasionally hostile and antagonistic anti-papal language contributed to Bucer's negative reputation in England, where his remains were burned at the stake by Mary I in 1559.
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