Bay Psalm Book
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The Bay Psalm Book is the first book printed in British North America, a 1640 metrical English translation of the biblical Psalms used by early New England Puritans for congregational singing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bay Psalm Book canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T895026 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bay Psalm Book Context triple: [Richard Mather, notableWork, Bay Psalm Book]
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A.
Psalter
The Psalter is the traditional name for the biblical Book of Psalms, a collection of religious songs, prayers, and poems central to Jewish and Christian worship.
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B.
Gutenberg Bible copies
Gutenberg Bible copies are surviving exemplars of the first major book printed in Europe using movable metal type by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-15th century, prized for their historical and bibliographic significance.
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C.
Lindisfarne Gospels
The Lindisfarne Gospels is an illuminated manuscript of the four Christian Gospels, renowned as a masterpiece of early medieval Insular art produced in Northumbria around the early 8th century.
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D.
Codex Boturini
Codex Boturini is a pre-Hispanic Aztec pictorial manuscript that chronicles the Mexica migration and the legendary origins of Tenochtitlan.
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E.
Confraternity Bible
The Confraternity Bible is a mid-20th-century English Catholic translation of the Bible produced under the auspices of the U.S. bishops as a modern revision of the Douay-Rheims.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bay Psalm Book Target entity description: The Bay Psalm Book is the first book printed in British North America, a 1640 metrical English translation of the biblical Psalms used by early New England Puritans for congregational singing.
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A.
Psalter
The Psalter is the traditional name for the biblical Book of Psalms, a collection of religious songs, prayers, and poems central to Jewish and Christian worship.
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B.
Gutenberg Bible copies
Gutenberg Bible copies are surviving exemplars of the first major book printed in Europe using movable metal type by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-15th century, prized for their historical and bibliographic significance.
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C.
Lindisfarne Gospels
The Lindisfarne Gospels is an illuminated manuscript of the four Christian Gospels, renowned as a masterpiece of early medieval Insular art produced in Northumbria around the early 8th century.
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D.
Codex Boturini
Codex Boturini is a pre-Hispanic Aztec pictorial manuscript that chronicles the Mexica migration and the legendary origins of Tenochtitlan.
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E.
Confraternity Bible
The Confraternity Bible is a mid-20th-century English Catholic translation of the Bible produced under the auspices of the U.S. bishops as a modern revision of the Douay-Rheims.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian liturgical book
ⓘ
historical printed book ⓘ metrical psalm book ⓘ psalter ⓘ religious book ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Harvard College press
ⓘ
Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ
surface form:
Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritan churches
|
| basedOn |
Psalms
ⓘ
surface form:
Book of Psalms
|
| centuryOfPublication | 17th century ⓘ |
| compiler |
John Eliot
ⓘ
Richard Mather ⓘ Thomas Weld ⓘ |
| continentOfPublication | North America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| culturalContext | early colonial New England ⓘ |
| dateOfPublication | 1640 ⓘ |
| denomination |
Congregationalist
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Puritan ⓘ |
| genre |
metrical psalms
ⓘ
religious poetry ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
1640 first edition
ⓘ
subsequent revised editions in the 17th century ⓘ |
| hasSignificanceIn |
history of American Protestant worship
ⓘ
history of printing in America ⓘ |
| influenced | later American psalm and hymn books ⓘ |
| isFirstPrintedBookIn |
British America
ⓘ
surface form:
British North America
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| liturgicalUse | psalm singing in worship services ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first book printed in British North America
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historical and bibliographic rarity ⓘ literal approach to Hebrew text ⓘ |
| numberOfPsalms | 150 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Hebrew ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| printedAt | Cambridge press in Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| printer | Stephen Daye ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| replaced |
New England churches
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surface form:
Ainsworth Psalter in some New England churches
|
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| subject | Psalms ⓘ |
| survivingCopiesOfFirstEdition | fewer than a dozen ⓘ |
| theologicalOrientation | Calvinist ⓘ |
| title | The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre ⓘ |
| translationOf |
Psalms
ⓘ
surface form:
Book of Psalms
|
| translationType | metrical translation ⓘ |
| usedBy |
New England churches
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surface form:
Massachusetts Bay Colony churches
Puritanism ⓘ
surface form:
New England Puritans
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| usedFor | congregational singing ⓘ |
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Subject: Bay Psalm Book Description of subject: The Bay Psalm Book is the first book printed in British North America, a 1640 metrical English translation of the biblical Psalms used by early New England Puritans for congregational singing.
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