| Show A treasured beuc miss nina cromwell of detroit who claims to bo a lineal descendant of the great oliver cromwell owns a venerable bible which is thought to ba the identical volume which the protector usell it was printed in 1591 by john for the assigns of richard day and was brought to this country in 1750 by benjamin cromwell the grea of the present owner who has refused the edges of the pages ara bordered with columns of reference a in the style which is current today the references are not so numerous however as those in a modem bible between the old and new testaments ara tho apocryphal books and at the close of tha new testament is a subject index perhaps the most curious part of the volume is tha metrical arrangement of the psalms with which it closes tha preface to this part of the work states that tha psalms wera collected into english meter by thomas bgern john Hopt tins and others with apt notes to sas them wi thaIL the notes i mond shaped and are arranged oa a esaff of five lines having a cleff not un laotha modern tenor cleff each note I 1 is open and fihs ihs stem when ona is used 1 proceeds from the apes of the diamond i tribune |
