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psalter
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A psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms , often with other devotional material bound in as well, such as a liturgical calendar and litany of the Saints . Until the later medieval emergence of the book of hours , psalters were the books most ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"the Book of Psalms," Old English saltere , psaltere , from Church Latin psalterium "the songs of David," in secular Latin, "stringed instrument played by twanging," from Greek psalterion "stringed instrument, psaltery, harp," from psallein "to pluck, play ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I didn't cycle past much after that and kept my eyes on psalters and hymn-books. ▪ It was fashioned of sandalwood, beautifully carved, and no larger than was needed to hold a psalter . ▪ She lifted out the illuminated psalter ...
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Psalter, in the same character, a Placebo and a Dirige, with a Hymnal and Collectary, for 4 s.
The cupola of the church had fallen in, the ancient decorated iconostasis was smoldering, the vestments, psalters, icons already lay in ashes.
Gradually there were added to these psalter choir-books additions in the form of antiphons, responses, collects or short prayers, for the use of those not skilful at improvisation and metrical compositions.
As the deceased was a hieromonk of the highest rank, not the Psalter but the Gospel had to be read over him by hieromonks and hierodeacons.
Hymnal and Collectary will he illuminate with gold and vermillion, except the great letters of double feasts, which shall be as the large gilt letters are in the Psalter.
Here is a Latin Psalter with the Canticles, from the press of Fust and Schoeffer, the second book issued from their press, the second book printed with a date, that date being 1459.