Crossword-Solution: PSALTERS 8 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Dear as their pagan books were to the monkish collectors, it was upon their Bibles, their psalters, and their other religious books that these mediaeval bibliomaniacs expended their choicest art and their most loving care.

Sink to silence the psalms and the paeans The shibboleths shift, and the faiths, And the temples that challenged the aeons Are tenanted only by wraiths; Swoon to silence the cymbals and psalters, The worships grow senseless and strange, And the mockers ask, _"Where be thy altars?"_ Crying, _"Nothing is changeless--but Change!"_ Yes, nothing seems changeless, but Change.

The missal painters wrought it not only into prayer books, but, despite the fact that hardly a trace of the belief appears in the Psalms, they illustrated it in the great illuminated psalters from which the noblest part of the service was sung before the high altar.

The elves are a strictly religious people in their winsome way, “part pagan, part papistical;” they have their pardons and indulgences, their psalters and chapels, and An apple's-core is hung up dried, With rattling kernels, which is rung To call to Morn and Even-song; and very conveniently, Hard by, I' th' shell of half a nut, The Holy-water there is put.

From Paul (1077) to Whethamstede (_d._ 1465) nearly all its abbots were book-lovers.[105] Paul built a writing-room, and put in the aumbries twenty-eight fine books (_volumina notabilia_), and eight Psalters, a Collectarium, books of the Epistles and Gospels for the year, two copies of the Gospels adorned with gold and silver and precious stones, without speaking of ordinals, customaries, missals, troparies, collectaria, and other books.