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A very popular paraphrase of the Psalms, translated into German
SNOY, Reinier & Nicolaus Hug LANDENBURGER (transl.).Der gantze Psalter dess heiligen unnd königklichen Propheten Davids, mit beygesetzter kurtzer Catholicher Erklärung, auss den alten Vättern, unnd Kirchen Lehrern gezogen. Anfangs in lateinischer Sprach beschriben, nachmalen durch Herrn Nicolaum Hug Landenburger, des Keiserlichen Thumb Stiffts Speier Diacon verteutscht. Anjetzo aber durch instendiges Antreiben dess wolwürdigen, wolgebornen Herzen Joann Werneren, edlen Herren auff Raitnau, zu Langenstein, Sant Johannes Ordens Rittern, & zu mehrerm nutz unnd trost viler frommen unnd Gottliebenden Christen nachgetruckt.     St. Gallen, Im Fürstlichen Gottszhaus (= Johann Landorth), 1644. 4to. Contemporary full calf panel-binding, spine raised in compartments, green painted edges, two brass clasps. Title printed in red and black, woodcut headpiece and calligraphic initials. (16), 574 pp. Seventeenth-century edition of the translation into German by Nicolaus Hug Landenburger (first edition 1566) of this very popular, devotional and at the same time one of the best-known works by Reinier Snoy from Gouda, (1477-1537): his famous paraphrase of the Psalms, Psalterium Davidicum paraphrasibus brevibus illustrata, first published in Latin by Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten at Antwerp in 1635. This paraphrase was translated into various languages and republished till far into the 18th century. Snoy matriculated at Louvain in 1496, and subsequently went to Bologna where he was awarded a medical doctorate. After his return to Holland he became physician to Adolph of Burgundy, lord of Veere. He was introduced to Charles V, who sent him on various diplomatic missions, a.o. to Denmark and Scotland. After having practiced medicine for some time in England he returned to his native Gouda to devote his further live to the study of theology. Belonging to the circle around Erasmus, the latter called him 'alterum literarum hollandicarum decus'. Fine copy in its original state, with the cancelled shelf-label of the Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen.- (Binding rest., most of its original panel-design worn off; old ms. ownership's entries and shelf-number on title, small round library stamp of the 'Encyclopedie Benedictine' on inside of front cover & verso of title, respectively last page; some marg. browning).
VD17-12:119219N; Contemporaries of Erasmus III, pp. 261-2; Siegfried Risse, 'Die Psalmenerklärung des Reynerus Snoy Goudanus und ihre Übersetzung (1566) von Nikolaus Hug Landenburger', in: Archiv für mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte, 58 (2006), pp. 299-318; this edition not in De Graaf, Doctor Reynerus Snoygoudanus ca. 1477- 1st August 1537.
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