This original lithographed edition was digitally photographed on November 22, 2011 at the library of Beijing Normal University through the Digitization project coordinated by the Orthodox Brotherhood of Saints Apostles Peter and Paul in Hong Kong. The chopmark on the title page is stamped in Chinese: Beiping Furen University/Library Collection, and in English: Catholic University of Peiping, which operated under that name during the period 1925-1950 in Beijing before shortly thereafter relocating to Taipei, Taiwan.
Underwritten by the Orthodox Brotherhood of Saints Apostles Peter and Paul in Hong Kong, the electronic text of the Psalter as translated into Mandarin Chinese by Bp Innokenty of Beijing and published by the Russian Mission (Beiguan) in 1910 is now being made available at http://orthodox.cn/bible/psalter/1910/.
The electronic transcription for anointed 傳油, 油傳, 聖膏傳 and 油所傳 has been corrected to 傅油, 油傅, 聖膏傅 and 油所傅 as verified against the scanned images. In Ps 2:2, Bp Innokenty introduced a specially made Chinese character 鿖 to represent the abbreviation of the Slavonic transliteration of the name Christ, instead of how he translated as 傅油 anointed in the rest of the Psalter where the original Greek χριστου Christou appeared. This hanzi is adopted in the latest Unicode Standard as part of a Proposal to Encode Chinese Characters used to Transliterate Slavonic by the Ponomar Project to the IRG.
Bp Innokenty's translation of the Psalter is missing Ps 85:4 LXX which is now reconstructed using his translation of terminology and phrases of this verse that appeared in other parts of the Psalter, and the beginning verses of this Psalm which was originally mis-numbered is now fixed. To assist in finding where terms or phrases from this verse appear in other part of Psalter, unbound.biola.edu is used to search the Greek LXX and Russian Synodal versions. Two different translations of the word soul which appear twice within this verse is reconstructed following the precedent of the earlier 1879 Chinese Orthodox Psalter.
In collaboration with OFASC, the United Bible Societies is in the process of proofreading carefully the word document against the scanned page images. Upon completion of proofreading, the electronic text will be made freely available in both simplified and traditional Chinese script.
with prayers in memory of Bishop Alexander (Mileant)