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 divers languages. With most profitable annotations upon 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. after 1640?]
Description
[4], 190; 127, [2]; 121, [11] p. : ill., maps

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Summary note
eebo-0198
Notes
  • The Geneva version of the Old Testament, translated by William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson, and perhaps others (lacking the Apocrypha), with Laurence Tomson's revision of the Geneva version of the New Testament and his translation of Franciscus Junius' translation of Revelation.
  • 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 2499.2).
  • This edition has "seven and twen- #5FD\ ty provinces" in Esther I, 1. Variant: "seven and twenty pro- #5FD\ vinces"; some other leaves reset.
  • Reproduction of the originals in Eton College. Library and Yale University. Library.
  • Appears at reel 1566 (Eton College. Library copy) and at reel 1680 (Yale University. Library copy).
References
  • STC (2nd ed.) 2175.
  • Darlow & Moule (Rev. 1968), 249.
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