Az Öreg graduál Psalteriuma
The Psalter of the Old Gradual

Summary/Abstract: No thorough musical, literary or theological study has so far scrutinized together the Psalter of the Vizsoly Bible (1590) and that of the Old Gradual (1636). It happens not seldom in manuscripts that duplicates of the same psalm are inserted by the editor, just as in the Gradual of Kálmáncsa (1623–1628). Two Psalters survived in print, that of I. Székely (1538) and C. Helth or Heltai (1560). These psalms were to be sung during the service. Humanists had discarded the practice of translation of the 13th–15th century Hungarian codices, the wording of which had been measured to Hebraica veritas, i. e. translated as close as possible to the Hebrew original.

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