The Bible [electronic resource] : that is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Old and New Testament. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all hard places, and other things of great importance.

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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Imprinted at London [i.e. Amsterdam] : By the deputies of Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie [i.e. Jan Fredericksz Stam], 1599 [i.e. 1633]
Description
[4], 190; 127, [1]; 121, [11] leaves : ill.

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Summary note
eebo-0016
Notes
  • The Geneva version of the Old Testament, translated by William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson, and perhaps others (lacking the Apocrypha); Laurence Tomson's revision of the Geneva version of the New Testament and his translation of Franciscus Junius' translation of Revelation; and the Sternhold and Hopkins metrical Psalms.
  • The imprint is false; actual printer's name supplied and publication date conjectured by STC.
  • Title within a woodcut frame. With an additional title page with no woodcut frame.
  • The second part of the Old Testament has separate divisional title, foliation, and register.
  • "The New Testament of our Lord Iesus Christ" has separate dated title page, foliation and register.
  • Issued with "The booke of Psalmes" (STC 2499.4).
  • A variant of the edition which has "Imprinted at Amsterdam .. 1633" in imprint (STC 2309); some copies may have mixed sheets--STC.
  • This edition has "seuen and twenty prouinces" in Esther I, 1.
  • Reproduction of the original in the Central Library (Bristol, Eng.).
References
  • STC (2nd ed.) 2177
  • Darlow & Moule (Rev. 1968), 252.
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