A newly identified manuscript of metrical psalms in Manx Gaelic (original) (raw)

Manx National Heritage MS 09608/45 is a collection of 17 psalms (or fragments of psalms), plus a Christmas Hymn, an Easter Hymn, and a variety of doxologies, versified for singing, following the English model of Tate & Brady.1 The collection is mostly a subset of those pieces found in the 1769 Manx Prayer Book edited in Wheeler (2019), but there are a few verses in the ms. that are absent in 1769. The ms. is edited for the first time, set alongside the matching items from the 1769 collection, and Tate & Brady's English originals.