1718 References to this Psalter are hard to find.
Copies are even more so.
The Psalterium Americanum was written in blank verse, but it employed an ingenious device in which the Psalms could be sung in either common metre or long metre by either including or omitting words that were indicated in parenthesis in the text. Mather also included explanations and commentary after each Psalm. It was apparently his hope to displace the Bay Psalm Book , a work whose literary problems were becoming more and more apparent, but his hope was disappointed as his version never saw widespread use. We have managed to locate two Psalm versions from the Psalterium Americanium, which are included on this web site. We will add others as we locate them.