Kingoo Clare Costley - Miserere Mei: The Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern

MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN

Series Editors:

David Aers, Sarah Beckwith, and James Simpson

MISERERE MEI

The Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

Clare Costley Kingoo

University of Notre Dame Press

Notre Dame, Indiana

Copyright 2012 by University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, Indiana 46556

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Contents

ONE
Illustrating the Penitential Psalms

TWO
The Conflict over Penance

THREE
Plotting Reform

FOUR
From Penance to Politics

FIVE
Parody and Piety

Psalm 1. The psalter or boke of psalmes both in Latyn and Englyshe. [Trans. Miles Coverdale.] London: R. Grafton, 1540. STC 2368. Sigs. a1v to a2r. The British Library Board. Shelfmark C.111.aa.30.

The Penitential Psalms. The primer in English and Latin, after Salisburie vse. London: R. Caly, 1556. STC 16073. Sig. M6r. The British Library Board. Shelfmark C.35.b.21.(1.).

Illustration for 2 Samuel 11. The byble in Englyshe. [Paris: F. Regnault]; London: R. Grafton and E. Whitchurch, 1539. STC 2068. [Great Bible] Part 2, fol. 40v. The British Library Board. Shelfmark G.12215.

The Penitential Psalms. Horae, Dominican Use. Italy (Siena), ca. 1470. Used by permission of the Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia. MS Lewis E 118, fol. 132v.

The Penitential Psalms. Horae, Use of Dol and Rennes. France (Paris), ca. 1405. Used by permission of the Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia. MS Widener 4, fol. 76r.

The Penitential Psalms. Hore presentes ad vsum Sarum. Paris: P. Pigouchet for S. Vostre, 1498. STC 15887. Sig. k4r. The British Library Board. Shelfmark IA.40335.

Leaf from Horae. France (Rouen), [early?] sixteenth century. Used by permission of the Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia. MS Lewis M11.10a.

The Penitential Psalms. Horae, Use of Paris. France (Paris), early sixteenth century. Used by permission of the Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia. MS Lewis E 97, fol. 68r.

The Penitential Psalms. Orarium seu libellus precationum per regiam maiestatem & clerum latin aeditus. London: R. Grafton, 1546. STC 16042. Sig. E2v. The British Library Board. Shelfmark C.35.b.18.

The Penitential Psalms. This prymer of Salysbury vse. Paris: T. Kerver for J. Growte [in London], 1532. STC 15978. Fol. 126v. The British Library Board. Shelfmark C.35.a.14.

The Penitential Psalms. Hore beatissime virginis Marie ad vsum Sarisburiensis ecclesie. Paris: T. Kerver for W. Bretton [in London], 1510. STC 15909. Sig. q1r. The British Library Board. Shelfmark C.25.k.4.

First sermon. John Fisher, This treatise concernynge the fruytfull saynges of Dauyd in the seuen penytencyall psalmes. London: W. de Worde, 1508. STC 10902. Sig. aa2r. The British Library Board. Shelfmark G.12026.

2 Samuel 11. Biblia the bible. [Cologne?: E. Cervicornus and J. Soter?], 1535. STC 2063. [Coverdale Bible] Sig. hh2r. By permission of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania. Shelfmark Fol. BS145 1535.

Commandment against adultery. A necessary doctrine and erudition for any christen man. London: J. Mayler, 1543. STC 5175. [The Kings Book] Sig. N3r. The British Library Board. Shelfmark C.21.a.13.

The alphabet. The New England Primer. Worcester, MA: S. A. Howland (publisher); J. M. Shumway (printer and binder), ca. 1849. Page 13. Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society. Shelfmark N532 H864 1849.

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Title page. Certayne psalmes chosen out of the psalter of Dauid. London: T. Raynald and [i.e., for] J. Harington (Harryngton in the imprint), 1549. STC 2726. Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. Shelfmark Syn.8.54.156.

From the dedication to Lord William Parr. Certayne psalmes chosen out of the psalter of Dauid. London: T. Raynald and [i.e., for] J. Harington (Harryngton in the imprint), 1549. STC 2726. Sig. A1v. Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. Shelfmark Syn.8.54.156.

The Penitential Psalms. This prymer in Englyshe and in Laten. London: [R. Redman, 1537]. STC 15997. Sig. P2v. By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Shelfmark STC 15997.

Prologue to the second Penitential Psalm. Certayne psalmes chosen out of the psalter of Dauid. London: T. Raynald and [i.e., for] J. Harington (Harryngton in the imprint), 1549. STC 2726. Sig. B3r. Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. Shelfmark Syn.8.54.156.

Frontispiece with engraving of Elizabeth Regina. Christian prayers and meditations. London: J. Day, 1569. STC 6428. By permission of the Trustees of Lambeth Palace Library. Shelfmark (ZZ) 1569.6.

Illustration for Psalm 1 depicting David in prayer. Gallican Psalter with Calendar, Canticles, Litany, and Collects. Flanders (Bruges), ca. 1470. Used by permission of the Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia. MS Lewis E 182, fol. 7r.

A meditation vpon the 102 Psalme. Theodore Beza, Christian meditations vpon eight psalmes of the prophet Dauid. [Trans. John Stubbs.] London: C. Barker, 1582. STC 2004. Sigs. F2v-F3r. The British Library Board. Shelfmark 3090.aaaa.7.

Title page with emblem of winged heart (and monogram IHS). Richard Verstegan, Odes. In imitation of the seaven penitential psalmes, with sundry other poemes. [Antwerp: A. Conincx], 1601. STC 21359. The British Library Board. Shelfmark C.38.b.29.

First two stanzas of Psalm 51, with melody. William Hunnis, Seuen sobs of a sorrowfull soule for sinne. London: H. Denham, 1583. STC 13975. Page 35. The British Library Board. Shelfmark C.37.a.7.

Textual Note

For early works, I have silently expanded abbreviations and contractions. I have also removed double capitalization occurring at the beginning of sentences and updated obsolete characters (such as thorn and yogh, the long s, and ligatures). In general, however, I have kept modernization light.