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What is a psalter?

What is a psalter? Here are some definitions.

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  1. The Book of Psalms. Often applied to a book containing the Psalms separately printed.
  2. Specifically for Anglicans, the Book of Common Prayer which contains the Book of Psalms. For Catholics, the Breviary containing the Psalms arranged for each day of the week.
  3. In the Roman Catholic Church, a rosary consisting of one hundred and fifty beads, corresponding to the number of the Psalms.
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An Irish Latin psalter of the early 7th century, this is perhaps the oldest known Irish manuscript of any sort.
It is probable that this miniature was originally the opening miniature of the psalter.
His crozier and a psalter associated with him were, later, taken into battle.
He covers methodology, the fourth and fifth books of the psalter, and the canto design of Hebrew poetry in terms of verselines.
The secret of the psalter is that when we apply ourselves to it it transforms us into the poor, the anawim.
By analogy with the psalter, the Ave Maria began to be recited in groups of 50 and, in order to avoid the danger of a purely mechanical recitation, the prayer was enriched with Marian antiphons in the same way as the psalms.

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