The Bible translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke : and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations upon all the hard places, and other things of great importance ... And also a most profitable concordance for the readie finding out of any thing in the same conteined ...

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Title

The Bible translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke : and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations upon all the hard places, and other things of great importance ... And also a most profitable concordance for the readie finding out of any thing in the same conteined ...

Description

Note on the verso of concordance title page: "Elizabeth the Daughter of Thomas and Mary Child was Baptised the 9th day of Aprill Anno Domni 1646."

Handwritten note on front pastedown: "[Grate?]ful rememberance from an old friend Florence Westbury 1901."

Contemporary seventeenth-century leather boards with blind tooling. Rebacked spine with gold tooling and titling. New endbands attached after repairs.

Bound with Church of England. Book of common prayer. London, 1641. 

Engraved title page. Initials and tailpieces. Concordance with separate engraved title page "The Newe Testament of our Lord Iesus Christ, conferred diligently with the Greeke ..."

Error in binding concordance: sig. D follows sig. E.

The Geneva Bible and its later editions are often called "Breeches" Bibles. Bookseller’s note on front pastedown: "The bible (Genevan, or “breeches” Version), with Apocrypha, 2 wood cut titles, black letter, London Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1589 also Herrys Concordonces: Sternholds Psalms in Metre, with music (wants last leaf of prayers), 1590and a Perfect Copy of Common Prayer, black letter, 1641bnd. In one very thk. 4to, contemporary of. (repaired)." 

Handwritten note on front flyleaf listing all of the books bound in the volume. Baptism record and other handwritten note on the verso of concordance title page. Some other markings on pages in between the Old and New Testaments.

Publisher

Imprinted at London : by the Deputies of Christopher Barker

Date

1589

Format

Page dimensions: 20.7 x 14.5. Laid paper.

554 leaves, [164] pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

Type

Text

Identifier

BX5145 .A4 1641

ESTC S101765

Coverage

Sixteenth Century, Seventeenth Century

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Citation

“The Bible translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke : and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations upon all the hard places, and other things of great importance ... And also a most profitable concordance for the readie finding out of any thing in the same conteined ...,” Regenerating the Local Catalog, accessed March 19, 2024, https://sparks.omeka.net/items/show/5.