Talk:Bay Psalm Book

Songs? Thirty?
I've always heard there were three translators, not 30. Source?

Also, putting this under "songs" is misleading if anyone is thinking there was music printed to go with the translated metrical texts. The point of metricizing was to make printed music unnecessary; people had the tunes memorized, or followed them from the "lining out" the precentor did (see Sewall's humorous account of how this could go astray when the balconies and the ground floor "caught" two different, but similar tunes from him one morning..and kept singing them both at once...). Tunes were printed in some earlier books and were known from other sources, but were not included with the BPB.Dellaroux (talk) 14:10, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Contrafacto
This also needs an explanation, or at the least a link, to the concept of contrafacto, which was why it worked to print only the tunes.Dellaroux (talk) 14:12, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Extant Copies
This section states, "Eleven copies... are known still to exist" but only accounts for eight copies. Where are the other three? — Preceding unsigned comment added by GGPJ (talk • contribs) 17:44, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Could the list please be annotated to indicate the five complete copies? Davidships (talk) 22:45, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Auction
I just saw this: http://www.abebooks.co.uk/books/RareBooks/worlds-most-expensive-book/bay-psalm.shtml?cm_sp=home-_-center-_-onetxt. It might be a useful source if someone decides to update this page after the 26nd of nov. Benboy00 (talk) 19:23, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Sale price
One of eleven surviving copies of the first edition sold at auction in November 2013 for $14.2 million.
 * — Good grief! Sca (talk) 00:33, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

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First book printed in the British Colonies.
The article currently states the 1640 Bay Psalm Book was the first book printed in North America. Not true. The Bay Psalm Book was the first book printed in the British Colonies that would later become the United States. The first book printed in North America, was printed in Mexico City in 1539. See the Wikipedia article at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_the_First_Print_Shop_in_the_Americas — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:280:C480:7AB0:4012:F45C:FFE6:EBCB (talk) 21:25, 28 October 2020 (UTC)