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Psalterium Davidis carmine redditum per Eobanum Hessum. Annotationes Viti Theodori Noribergensis, quae vice commentarii in idem esseposint. Ecclesiastes Salomonis eodem genere carminis ab eodem redditus.

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Seemingly unrecorded issue of the Psalms of David in Latin as edited by the Lutheran theologian Eoban of Hesse (1488–1540) with commentary by Luther’s housemate, associate, and sometime secretary Veit Dietrich (1506–1549).

The verse translation of the Psalms by the Lutheran humanist and neo-Latin poet Eoban of Hesse (or Eobanus Hessus, 1488–1540) was completed in 1537 during a stay at the University of Marburg; ‘endorsed by Luther and Melanchthon, it was reprinted over fifty times’ (Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation). The first Parisian edition of Eobanus’ Psalms was printed ten years later by Mathurin du Puys, elder brother and collaborator of Jacques I Dupuys (active c. 1540–1589) who printed the present edition. Mathurin’s known affiliation with the Reformation likely stems from his ties to booksellers and printers in Basel: ‘he was from 1537 to 1541 an agent for the Basel bookseller Conrad Resch … At the same time, he frequented the Frankfurt fairs and continued to work with the Basel booksellers Michael Isengrin, Nikolaus I Episcopius, Heinrich Petri and especially Hieronymus Froben’ (BnF Data, trans.). Did Jacques perhaps share his brother’s support for the cause of the Reformation?

Our copy preserves a fragment of a seemingly unrecorded broadside lunar almanack for 1583, with phases of the moon, feast days, and forecasts visible for February (promising cold rain, snow, and black ice), April (thunder and lightning), and June (‘facheux & malhereux temps’).

Another issue was printed in August 1550 by Guillaume Morel for Jean de Roigny of which OCLC finds copies at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Glasgow, Heidelberg, and Mazarine, (see USTC 150683; Pettegree & Walsby, French Books 57691). We find a single copy at the Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg listing only Morel as printer, and 1 at the Bodleian with no printer listed.

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