Of the Psalter there are extant four Latin translations out of the Greek, (namely the old Italian, the Roman, the Gallican, and that of Milan:) and one out of the Hebrew, composed by St. Hierome: which though it be now excluded out of the body of the Bible, and the Gallican admitted in the room thereof; yet in some Manuscript Copies, it still retaineth his ancient place. three whereof I have seen my self in Cambridge, the one in Trinity, the other in Benet, and the third in Jesus College Library: where this translation out of the Hebrew, and not the Vulgar out of the Greek, is inserted into the context of the Bible. In the citations of Gildas, and the Confession of Saint Patrick, I observe that the Roman Psalter is followed, rather than the Gallican: in the quotations of Sedulius, on the other side, the Gallican rather than the Roman. Claudius speaking of a text in the 118th. (or as he accounteth it, the 117th.) mPsalm, saith, that where the LXX. Interpreters did translate it, O Lord save me, it was written in the Hebrew, Anna Adonai Hosanna: which our Interpreter Hierom (saith he) more diligently explaining, translated thus; I beseech thee, O Lord, save I beseech thee. Before ⟨p. 9⟩this translation of S. Hierome, nI have seen an Epigram prefixed by Ricemarch the Briton; who by Caradoc of Lhancarpan ois commended for the godliest, wisest, and greatest Clerk that had been in Wales many years before his time, his father Sulgen Bishop of S. Davids only excepted, who had brought him up, and a great number of learned disciples. He having in this Epigram said of those who translated the Psalter out of Greek, that they did darken the Hebrew rays with their Latin cloud: addeth of S. Hierome, that being replenished with the Hebrew fountain, he did more clearly and briefly discover the truth; as drawing it out of the first vessel immediately, and not taking it at the second hand. To this purpose thus expresseth he himself;
Ebraeis nablam custodit littera signis:
Pro captu quam quisque suo sermone Latino
Edidit, innumeros Linguâ variant libellos;
Ebraeumque jubar suffuscat nube Latina.
Nam tepefacta ferum dant tertia labrasaporem.
Sed sacer Hieronymus, Ebraeo font repletus,
Lucidiùs nudat verum, breviusque ministrat.
Namque secunda create, nam tertia vascula vitat.
Of the Psalter there are extant foure Latin translations out of the Greeke, (namely the old Italian, the Romane, the Gallican, and that of Millayne:) and one out of the Hebrew, composed by St. Hierome: which though it bee now excluded out of the body of the Bible, and the Gallican admitted in the roome thereof; yet in some Manuscript Copies, it still retaineth his ancient place. three whereof I have seene my selfe in Cambridge, the one in Trinitie, the other in Benet, and the third in Iesus Colledge Librarie: where this translation out of the Hebrew, and not the Vulgar out of the Greek, is inserted into the context of the Bible. In the citations of Gildas, and the Confession of Saint Patrick, I observe that the Roman Psalter is followed, rather than the Gallican: in the quotations of Sedulius, on the other side, the Gallican rather than the Roman. Claudius speaking of a text in the 118th. (or as he accounteth it, the 117th.) mPsalme, saith, that where the LXX. Interpreters did translate it, O Lord save me, it was written in the Hebrew, Anna Adonai Osanna: which our Interpreter Hierom (saith he) more diligently explaining, translated thus; I beseech thee, O Lord, save I beseech thee. Before ⟨p. 9⟩this translation of S. Hierome, nI have seene an Epigram prefixed by Ricemarch the Briton; who by Caradoc of Lhancarpan ois commended for the godliest, wisest, and greatest Clerke that had been in Wales many yeares before his time, his father Sulgen Bishop of S. Davids only excepted, who had brought him up, and a great number of learned disciples. He having in this Epigramme said of those who translated the Psalter out of Greeke, that they did darken the Hebrew rayes with thir Latin clowde: addeth of S. Hierome, that being replenished with the Hebrew fountaine, hee did more cleerely and briefly discover the truth; as drawing it out of the first vessell immediately, and not taking it at the second hand. To this purpose thus expresseth he himselfe;
Ebraeis nablam custodit littera signis:
Pro captu quam quisque suo sermone Latino
Edidit, innumeros Linguâ variante libellos;
Ebraeumque jubar suffuscat nube Latina.
Nam tepefacta ferum dant tertia labrasaporem.
Sed sacer Hieronymus, Ebraeo fonte repletus,
Lucidiùs nudat verum, breviusque ministrat.
Namque secunda creat, nam tertia vascula vitat.
- mIn Psalmo 117. ubi LXX. interpretes transtulerunt, O Domine salvū me fac; in Hebraeo scriptum est, Anna Adonai Osanna: quod interpres noster Hieronymus diligentiùs elucidans ita transtulit; Obsecro Domine, salva obsecro. Claud. Scot. in Matth. lib. 3.In Psalmo 117. ubi LXX. interpretes transtulerunt, O Domine salvū me fac; in Hebraeo scriptum est, Anna Adonai Osanna: quod interpres noster Hieronymus diligentiùs elucidans ita transtulit; Obsecro Domine, salva obsecro. Claud. Scot. in Matth. lib. 3.
- nMS. in Bibliothec• eruditissi•i antistiatis D. Guilielmi Bedelli, Kilmorersis & Ardachadensis apud nos Episcopi.
- oCaradoc. in Chronico Cambriae, circa annum 1099. ad quem in aliis etiam Annalibus Britannicis MSS. annotatum repperi. Sub hujus any ambitum morti succumbit Richmarch cogno. mine Sapiens, filius Sulgeni Episcopi, cum jam annum XLIII. aetatis ageret.Caradoc. in Chronico Cambriae, circa annum 1099. ad quem in aliis etiam Annalibus Britannicis MSS. annotatum repperi. Sub hujus anni ambitum morti succumbit Richmarch cogno. mine Sapiens, filius Sulgeni Episcopi, cum jam annum XLIII. aetatis ageret.
