The Massachuset psalter: or, Psalms of David with the Gospel according to John, in columns of Indian and English
Subtitle: Being an introduction for training up the aboriginal natives, in reading and understanding the Holy Scriptures
Contributors: Mayhew, Experience, 1673-1758; Sewall, Joseph, 1688-1769; Nicholls, Edward; Company for Propagation of the Gospel in New England and the Parts Adjacent in America; Brown University. Library; Indigenous Languages Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library)
Publisher: Printed by B. Green, and J. Printer, for the Honourable Company for the Propagation of the Gospel in New-England, &c.
Published: 1709
Place of publication: Boston, N.E
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Texts; Indian linguistics; Massachuset language
Other titles: Massachuset psalter.; Psalms of David with the Gospel according to John, in columns of Indian and English.; Massachusee psalter: asuh, Uk-kuttoohomaongash David weche wunnaunchemookaonk ne ansukhogup John, ut Indiane kah Englishe nepatuhquonkash. Ne woh sogkompagunukhettit kakoketahteaekuppannegk, aketanunnat, kah wohwohtamunat wunnetuppantamwe wussukwhongash.; Bible. O.T. Psalms. English. Authorized. 1709.; Bible. N.T. John. English. Authorized. 1709.; Bible. N.T. John. Massachuset and English. Mayhew. 1709.
Work titles: Bible. O.T. Psalms. Massachuset and English. Mayhew. 1709
Notes: Second title page, facing the English title page reads: Massachusee psalter: asuh, Uk-kuttoohomaongash David weche wunnaunchemookaonk ne ansukhogup John, ut Indiane kah Englishe nepatuhquonkash. Ne woh sogkompagunukhettit kakoketahteaekuppannegk, aketanunnat, kah wohwohtamunat wunnetuppantamwe wussukwhongash, with imprint: Boston, N.E.: Upprinthomunneau B. Green, kah J. Printer, wutche quhtiantamwe chapanukkeg wutche onchekehtouunnat wunnauchummookaonk ut New-England. &c. 1709.

Translation by Experience Mayhew based on John Eliot's translation. According to Trumbull "every verse underwent revision and scarcely one remains without some alteration." Cf. ESTC.

Signatures: [A] B-3E ([A]1 recto, 3E4 blank)

Printed in parallel columns of Massachuset and English.

Errata: p. [406]

Sabin 45537.

Evans 1380.

Pilling, J.C. Algonquian languages, 348.

ESTC W15139.

Digital version available on Internet Archive.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 imperfect: wanting the Gospel of John, which follows the Psalms.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 1: "Gift of Mr. Joseph Sewall ... to Edw[ar]d Nicholls July the 25th 1711": presentation inscription on front flyleaf.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 imperfect: wanting English and Massachuset title pages and all the Psalms before the very end of Psalm X and all of the Gospel of John after chapter XX.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 bound in contemporary full mottled calf; front board fully detached.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 2: Brown University: bookstamp on recto of first extant page: