The Bible: : that is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Old and New Testament. /
Bèze, Théodore de,1519-1605.
Loyseleur, Pierre,approximately 1530-1590.
Whittingham, William,-1579.
Gilby, Anthony,approximately 1510-1585.
Sampson, Thomas,1517?-1589.
Tomson, Laurence,1539-1608.
Junius, Franciscus,1545-1602.
Amsterdam [i.e. Leiden?] : Printed by [W. Christiaens and another printer for?] Thomas Stafford: and are to be sold at his house, at the signe of the Flight of Brabant, upon the Milk-market, over against the Deventer Wood-market,
MDCXL [1640].
At foot of imprint: According to the copy printed at Edinburgh by Andro Hart, in the yeare 1610.
The New Testament has a separate titlepage, with separate pagination and register and bears the title: The New Testament of our Lord Iesus Christ, translated out of Greeke by Theod. Beza whereunto are adioyned briefe summaries of doctrine upon the Euangelists and Acts of the Apostles, ... by the sayd Theod. Beza and also short expositions on the phrases and hard places, taken out of the large annotations of the foresaid author, and Joach. Camerarius, by P. Los. Villerius. Englished by L. Tomson. Together with the annotations of Fr. Iunius upon the Revelation of St. Iohn.
The Geneva version of the Old Testament, translated by William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson, and perhaps others, with Laurence Tomson's revision of the Geneva version of the New Testament and his translation of Franciscus Junius' translation of Revelation.
In two columns, roman.
Signatures: [par.]⁴ ²[par.]² A-2Q⁶, ²A-2P⁴ ²2Q⁶ ³[par.]² ³A-2M⁴.
2nd A-Hh (Psalms to Ezek. xl) have headlines in italic and are printed by Christiaens (STC).
The roman numeral date is made with turned "c"s.
The preliminary leaf is blank.
Pages numbered consecutively on the rectos only.
Numerous internal mis-paginations.
Without the Apocrypha; this seems to be the earliest example of an English Bible which deliberately omits the Apocrypha, except for the Prayer of Manasses, for the reasons specified in : 'An admonition to the Christian reader: concerning the Apocrypha-Books, wherein are shewed the reasons and grounds, wherefore they are here omitted' and ending with the words: Ordained at the Synod of Dort in the yeare 1618. set out and annexed, by the Deputies, to the end of the Dutch Bible newly translated (Darlow & Moule).
"Admonition to the reader" which is signed [par.]² is to be found bound in at the beginning or the end of the Old Testament.
With two engravings copied from the 1610 Hart edition in Exodus (G1r and G2v).
Place of publication and printers' information from STC.
STC (2nd ed.)
Darlow & Moule (Rev. 1968)
ESTC