[PSALMBOOK - RHAETO-ROMANIC]. GRASS, Johann.

Ils Psalms d'ilg Soinc Prophet a Reg David: suenter las Melodias Franzosas, ... Messi giu enten vers Rumonschs da la Ligia Grischa.Zurich, David Gessner, 1683. With 2 engraved frontispieces, diamond-head music notes, 1 decorative woodcut initial and bands of arabesque fleurons. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with brass clasps and corner & centre pieces with bosses.

(24), 573, (7) pp. Darlow & Moule, 7699; Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (9 copies); OCLC WorldCat (2 copies); for Grass: Biog.-Bibl. Kirchenlexikon XXI, cols. 528-530.First edition of Grass's metrical Psalter in the Oberland dialect of the Swiss Rhaeto-Romanic language. This dialect is sometimes called the dialect of the Grey League after the German name for Canton Grisons (Graubünden) in eastern Switzerland. With musical notation and based on a French psalm book. Translated by Johann Grass (1639-1702), Reformed minister first of Portein (where he succeeded his father) and then of the village Präz in Heinzenberg from 1670 to his death. Both lie in Canton Grisons, where this dialect was spoken, though the psalm book is also said to have been intended for the Surselva region in the south-west. The first frontispiece shows a woman playing an organ, with a music book open before her and with the pipes and keyboard clearly depicted. The second shows King David and three famous authors of metrical psalms (Clement Marot, Theodore Beza and Ambrosius Lobwasser) holding a cloth with the book's title. Another edition was printed in 1790 by Bernard Otto. A good copy, with a small chip restored in 1 leaf, affecting a few words of the text. The tooling on the binding is rubbed, and there is some minor worm damage on the back board and spine. A remarkable metrical psalm book in a Rhaeto-Romanic dialect.

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