Bill,
This leads me back to Oscar Wilde. Would he have known a Latin version of
the psalm, or would he have known a BCP version from which he took his title?
Tom
At 11:11 AM 4/24/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
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