Les Pseaumes de David mis en rime françoise

Description:

Text French. Each Psalm is accompanied with musical score. Includes: 'La Forme des Prieres Ecclesiastiques', 'Le Catechisme', 'Confession de Foi'.

Clément Marot (1496-1544) was one of the greatest poets of the French Renaissance. He was influenced by Marguerite de Navarre and her interests in humanism and the Reformation. In around 1531 he began to versify psalms into French, so that they could be easily memorised and organised them into stanzas so that they could be sung. They were set to music using popular or secular tunes and became popular, both at court and throughout France. When Marot died in 1544, he had completed 49 Psalms. John Calvin gave Theodore de Bèze (1519-1605) the responsibility of continuing Marot’s work to complete the versification of all the Psalms of the Bible.

In 1562, an official collection of the 150 Psalms was printed. This work had a very large circulation and contributed to the development of the Reformation.

Condition

12mo (112x 60mm), unpaginated, 228 ll [A-O¹² : 2A-2D¹² : 2E6 : *6], full chagrin, aeg, marbled endpapers, lacking front free endpaper. Metal clasp and corners. Very good.