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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Mayhew (E.) — Continued. 



Temporal Things, its | Rest should be spent in 

 Spirituals. | 



Boston, N. E. Re printed by B. Green. | 1707. 



Indian title verso 1. 1 recto blank, English 

 title recto 1. 2, text (beginning on verso of En- 

 glish title, altern ite pages Indian and English, 

 double numbers) pp. 1-36, 1-36, 1-2, 1-2, (verso of 

 the latter blank), 16°. 



The Indian heading to the supplementary 

 pages reads : Nohwutche nekone Chapter John. 



The English heading : Some part of the first 

 Chapter of John ] (Inserted in these Super- 

 numerary Pages, for the more | special Medita- 

 tion of the Indian Readers.) 



See the fac-similes of the title-pages. 



Copies seen : American Antiquarian Society, 

 Lenox, Massachusetts Historical Society. 



Priced by Quaritch, no. 30087, a fine copy with 

 uncut leaves, in crimson morocco extra, gilt 

 edges, 50i. 



The original discourse, in English, was first 

 printed in Boston, 1703. There is no earlier edi- 

 tion in Indian. 



[ ] Massachusee psalter : | asuh, | Uk- 



-kuttoohomaongash | David | Weche | 

 wuunauucliemookaonk \ Ne ausukhogup 

 Jolin, I Ut Indiane kali Euglishe ] Ne- 

 patuhquonkash. | Ne woh sogkompa- 

 gunukhettit | Kakoketahteaekuppan- 

 negk, aketamunnat, | kah wohwohta- 

 raunat Wunuetuppantam- | we Wus- 

 sukwliongash. | John v. 39. | Natinnea- 

 kontamook Wussukwhonkauasli, ne- 

 wut- I che ut yeusli kuttunnantamum- 

 woo kuttalitom- | woo mictieme poman- 

 tammooonk; kah nish | nashog wau- 

 waonukquenish. | 



Boston, N. E. | Upprinthomunueau 

 B. Green, kah J. Printer, | wutche quh- 

 tiantamwe chapanukkeg | wutche on- 

 chekehtouunnat wunnaunchum- | moo- 

 kaonk ut New-England. &c. 1709. 



Second title: The | Massachuset psalter: | 

 or, I psalms of David | With the | gospel | Ac- 

 cording to John, I In Columns of Indian and 

 English. I Being | An Introduction for Train- 

 ing up the I Aboriginal Natives, in Reading and 

 Un- I dorstanding the holy scriptures, | John 

 V. 39. I Search the Scriptures, for in them ye 

 think I yo have eternal Life, and they are they 

 I which testifle of Me. | 



Boston, N. E. | Printed by B. Green, and J. 

 Printer, for the | Honourable company for the 

 Propa- I gation of the Gospel in !New-England, 

 &c. I 1709. 



Indian title verso 1. 1 recto blank, English 

 title rccto 1.2 ver-o blank, text (double columns 

 Indian and English on same page) 201 unnum- 

 bered 11. 16°. SignaturBs[Al-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa- 

 Ddd, in fours, and Eee in three. 



Mayhew (E.) — Continued. 



The text of the Psalter begins on the recto 

 of the third leaf [A 3] and ends on the verso of 

 the 152d leaf [Pp 4], occupying 150 11. The gos- 

 pel of John begins on Qq 1 and ends on the 

 recto of Eee 3, occupying 51 11. The verso of 

 Eee 3 contains six lines of errata. See the fac 

 similes of the title-pages. 



Copies seen: American Antiquarian Society, 

 Boston Athenaeum, Brown, Lenox, Trumbull, 

 Tale. 



At the Brinley sale, no. 798, a remarkably fine 

 copy, in exquisite bindin/, brought $135; an- 

 other, no. 799, in the original binding, $50 ; an- 

 other, no. 800, imperfect, $5. The Murphy copy, 

 no. 1615, brought $27. 



" The dialect of the Vineyard had some pecu- 

 liarities, but these were gradually lost after the 

 Indians learned to read Eliot's version of the 

 Bible and his other translations. In 1722 Mr. 

 Mayhew observed (in a letter to Paul Dudley) 

 that now 'our Indians speak, but especially 

 write, much as those of Natick do.' The dif- 

 ference, however, was still perceptible, and may 

 be detected in Mr. Mayhew's translation of the 

 psalter. Josiah Cotton, at the end of his In- 

 dian vocabulary, compiled about 1727, gave a 

 dialogue between himself and one of the Indians 

 of Plj'mouth Colony, in which the latter says 

 *it is very difficult to get the tone' of their lan- 

 guage, and that when Cotton preached the In- 

 dians could not always understand him, ' be- 

 cause he did not put the tone in the right place, ' 

 and also, 'because he had some of his father's 

 (the Rev. John Cotton's) words, and he learned 

 Indian at Nope [Martha's ViueyardJ, and these 

 Indian's don't understand every word of them 

 Indians.' 



"Mayhew's version of the Psalms and Gospel 

 of John is founded upon Eliot's; but every^ 

 verse underwent revision, and scarcely one 

 remains without some alteration. The spelling 

 differs considerably from that of Eliot and 

 others, who had learned the language among 

 the Indians of the mainland. In exploring 

 'the latitudes and corners' of Indian Gram- 

 mar, Mr. Mayhew probably went further than 

 Eliot had gone; and the fact that his work 

 passed through the hands of 'J. Printer' gives 

 it additional value as a monument of the lan- 

 guage. James, the Indian printer, learned his 

 trade from Samuel Green in Cambridge, and 

 had worked on both editions of the Indian 

 Bible. 



"The Massachusee Psalter, in good condition, 

 is rare. Most of the copies I have seen bear 

 marks of much — and not always gentle — hand- 

 ling, and have lost more or loss of their 

 leaves "—Trumbull. 



Letter of Experience Mayhew, 1722, 



on the Indian language. Communicated 

 by John S. H. Fogg, M. D., of South 

 Bostou. 



In New England Hist, and Gen. Register, 

 vol. 39, pp. 10-17, Boston, 1885, 8°. 



