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> Would anyone know when the practice of typesetting the opening Latin > words > of a Psalm above the English translation began. I see it in the > recent > edition of the Book of Common Prayer. 1549, in the very first edition of the Prayer Book. The reformers thought - no doubt rightly - that it would help people to identify psalms with which they were familiar in the Latin, but whose numbering had been changed in the English. It has been done in every edition of the Book of Common Prayer, ever since. Oriens. ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%