Monday 7 October 2013

Matthew Parker's Psalter Project

I have a few weeks of spare time in which to delight myself in some project or other.



Something I enjoy is the study of old English translations of the Sacred Scriptures.
Upon obtaining a digital copy of Matthew Parker's Psalter I have decided to take it upon myself to digitise the whole psalter in searchable text, and also in digital typography. The second stage is to transcribe the psalms into a more standardised spelling which is better understood by the modern reader. Particular attention is made to keep the vocabulary of the text, only the spelling itself will be modernised to the type found in the King James Version commonly available today.

For example:
1. Man bleſt no doubt : who walketh not out,
in wicked mens affayres :
And
ſtondth no daie : in ſinners waigh
nor
ſitth in ſcorners chayres.

Becomes:

1.   Man blessed no doubt : who walketh not out,
in wicked mens’ affairs :
And stands no day : in sinners’ way
nor sits in scorners’ chairs.



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