The Bible, : 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 the hard places and other things of great importance.
Whittingham, William,-1579.
Gilby, Anthony,approximately 1510-1585.
Sampson, Thomas,1517?-1589.
Bèze, Théodore de,1519-1605.
Camerarius, Joachim,1500-1574.
Tomson, Laurence,1539-1608.
Gilby, Anthony,approximately 1510-1585.
Junius, Franciscus,1545-1602.
Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie,
Anno 1601.
This is a later edition of the so-called "Geneva version" (first published in 1560) the earliest English Bible printed in roman type with verse divisions. Translated by William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson and, perhaps, others at Geneva.
New Testament has special t.p., which reads: The Newe Testament of Our Lord Iesus Christ / translated out of Greeke by Theod. Beza ; whereunto are adioined briefe summaries of doctrine vpon the Euangelists and Actes of the Apostles, together with the methode of the Epistles of the Apostles by the said Theod. Beza ; and also short expositions on the phrases and hard places taken out of the large annotations of the foresaid author and Ioach. Camerarius by P. Lofeler Villerius ; Englished by L. Tomson ...
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Title within woodcut frame.
Head and tail pieces, woodcut initials.
Contains numerous errors in foliation.
Includes Junius's Revelation which has imprint (p. [1] at end): London : Imprinted by Richard Field for Robert Dexter, 1600.
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Herbert, A.S. Engl. Bible,
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