With a Manuscript Supplement
[PSALMS.]
Les Pseaumes de David en vers, nouvelle édition, retouchée une dernière fois sur toutes celles qui ont précédé. Et augmentée de quelques cantiques sacrez sur les principales solemnitez. Berlin, ‘chez la veuve Laurent’, 1740.
32mo, pp. 512, ‘515–534’, 533–590 (complete); woodcut frontispiece of King David dated 1741, printed music almost throughout; trimmed close touching date in imprint, some light foxing and spotting; a very good copy in red roan c. 1826, gilt borders to covers, upper cover lettered in gilt ‘L. Hopffer 1826’, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, gilt board edges and turn-ins, gilt and partly gauffered edges, green watered silk flyleaves; extremities rubbed; with manuscript in black ink ‘Recueil de cantiques à l’usage de l’église françoise de Berlin. Avec privilège. Berlin, écrit par L. E. Hopffer 1826’ (pp. [2], 33) and numerous blanks bound in at end.
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Les Pseaumes de David en vers, nouvelle édition, retouchée une dernière fois sur toutes celles qui ont précédé. Et augmentée de quelques cantiques sacrez sur les principales solemnitez.
A very rare pocket-sized Psalm book, printed by the widow Lorenz, in an attractive binding, with a later manuscript supplement bound in at the end.
Printed for the French community in Berlin, the British Library credits the translation to Valentin Conrart (1603–1675), a founder of the Académie française. In addition to the Psalms from 1 to 150, the text comprises canticles, prayers, the liturgy for baptism, communion, and marriage, and the catechism. The publisher was the widow of Johann Lorenz (or Lorentz) who was active between 1733 and 1747.
The manuscript supplement at the end comprises various canticles used in the French church in Berlin, written out in 1826 by one L.E. Hopffer, whose name also appears on the front board; perhaps a relative of the Berlin composer Ludwig-Bernard Hopffer (1840–1877)?
The attractive binding features a cross gauffered to the top and bottom edges.
No copies of this edition traced in the US and only one in the UK (BL).