Di certi usi della Sacra Scrittura condannati: "Il Salmista secondo la Bibbia"

In 2013 an article appeared in La Bibliofilia on several 15th and 16th-century editions, of great rarity, of the Virtutes psalmorum, which lists certain properties (more material than spiritual) associated with the Psalms. Another type of publication forms part of the tradition: the Salmista (also Salterio) secondo la Bibbia, which the present article examines. 14 extremely rare sixteenth-century editions of the text have been found, comprising the vernacular translation of the ‘Virtù dei salmi’ (in one of the published versions), together with the entire sequence of the Psalms in Latin. This combination of Latin and the vernacular indicates that these booklets were intended for a superstitious use of the Scriptural texts, which duly led to the condemnation of the Salmista on the part of the Church authorities.