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Richard Pace and the Psalms
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2021
Abstract
In the library of Winchester College is a multi-lingual psalter formerly owned by the diplomat and scholar, Richard Pace (c.1483–1536). Pace left extensive notes in this volume, the product of his study of the Hebrew Scriptures in comparison with the Vulgate and Greek Septuagint. They demonstrate his engagement with a variety of Jewish, patristic and humanist learning. A broader set of theological and devotional themes also emerge. For Pace, the Psalms were primarily a prophetic text, foretelling the coming of Christ and the Gospels, but they likewise reflected an interest in devotion, rhetoric and prayer typical of humanists of the period.
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Research for this article was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (grant no. AH/L503885/1) and New College, Oxford. I am deeply grateful to Richard Foster, Fellow Librarian at Winchester College, for his invaluable assistance. My thanks to my supervisors, Susan Brigden and Steve Gunn, and to James Carley, James Willoughby and Kiran Mehta for commenting upon various drafts. A version of this paper was first presented at the Ecclesiastical History Society Postgraduate Colloquium (2019) at De Montfort University in Leicester.
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93 ‘Praeterea mandavit deus in lege veteri, ut immolarentur animalia et victimae, non typice tantum et figuraliter (ut tu fortasse sentis) sed vere, et iuxta simplicem literam, ut videlicet nos pedetentim, ab imis ad summa, id est, a carnlibus ad spiritualia perduceret … Atqui nisi conferamus immolationem veterem cum nova, magnam vim sui demonstrandi nova plane amittet’: ibid. sigs B5v–C1r.
94 ‘Sciendum est, igitur hoc nomen Iesus, nusquam legi apud hebraeos, nec in significatione salvatoris, nec alterius ciuispiam rei … Caeterum habent iescha, ieschua, teschua, quae omnia non salvatorem, sed salutem significant’: ibid. sig. D2r; cf. Wakefield, On the three languages, 94.
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100 ‘illuminatio, pro luce. Est enim in hebraeo: Dominus lux mea, sicut Christus de se ipso dicit in evangelio. Ego sum lux mundi’: Pace, Praefatio, sig. D4r.
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106 ‘eisque insignem veritatis inquirendae occasionem prebere’: Pace, Praefatio, sig. A3r.
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109 ‘Uter in pruina: intus vacuus, foris contiactus. Arno[bius]. Hierony[mus] vero sic exponit: Erimus quasi uter in pruina quod refrigerat in nobis ardor peccatj’: ibid.
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123 Potken, Psalterium, sig. x3v, WCFL.
124 Pace did likewise at Psalm xviii (xix).2: ‘copiose effundit’. Jerome uses ‘fundant’: Psalterium iuxta hebraeos, 165.
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130 Jerome, Psalterium iuxta hebraeos, 179.
131 Athanasius, The life of Anthony and the letter to Marcellinus, trans. Robert Gregg, New York 1980, 109; Price, Reuchlin, 34.
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133 ‘Et confiteor dixit, iuxta sermonis Hebraei proprietatem, pro laudo, gratias ago’: Desiderius Erasmus, Annotationes in nouum testamentum, Basle 1527, 50.
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136 CSP: Spain, iii/2, 224.
137 Ibid.
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142 CSP: Spain, iv/1, 194.
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