The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-12-20

. copy Of their Bible 70 any scholar Who
Iwould find literal fault IN It The f;rss
person who publicly noticed any Of liz e..
rata was Dr.. William Wotsoa. Who n :
sermon preached It Newport aenell.
Bucks, noticed an error e. We y for . We y
At Acts Vi. 5. An edition printed &C Or.
ford in I'LL is remarkable for mistake
at Isaiah lyii IL, where q not il
omitted And the Oxford Bible Of 1872
declared that Philip INSTEAD Of Peserl
Iwould deny Christ before cock-crow.
| Great difficulty was experienced BY the
early translators with the enumeration Of
the articles composing Jacobs present to
Joseph tGsnesis Xviii. III, as little was
known At that time of the botany Of the
Holy Land Tyndale was not Tar wrong
in his version Of the Pentateuch in 1880,
although > cartesye bawlme,n etc, looks
quaint nowadays The Genevan of 1850
and the Douay of 1909 had rosen -
where we now have BALM Dr.. Geddes
introduces laudanum . among the pres
ents but in his manuscripts in the Bod
Ieian Library, Wyclifs translated the first
on the list as "a lyle of precious liquor
Of sibote." and adds slyly in the margin
that this precious liquor" is gimme"
A printers widow in Germany thought
to secure the supremacy of her sex by Sc
cretly altering the last clause OF the six
teenth verse Of the third chapter Of Cen
esis. By substituting the letters . MAJ
for the first half of the word Herr (Iord or
MASTERY it made the word read " Naar !"
the altered text reading, And he shall
be thy .fool" 1t is said this attempt 1t
improving" the text cost the good wo-
man her life. The translation of St.
PauPs Epistles in the Ethiopic language
was full Of errors, which the editors good
naturally excused by the following plea
They who printed the work could not
read, and we could not print; they helped
as, and we helped them, as the blind helps
the blind" DIR. John Jortin, in his 9 Re
marks on Ecclesiastical History (I754),"
notices Gothic Bishop who translated
the Scriptures into the language Of the
Cloths, omiiting the Book Of Kings, lest
the wars recorded there should increase
their inclination for lighting.
| DIR. Alexander Geddes, already referred
to, resolved to undertake . new transla-
ton and in 1880, as . preliminary, he
published sketch of his plan under the
title of an Idea of . New Revision of
the Holy Bible for the use of the English
Catholics" In 1856, he published an
other Prospectus" in 1887, An Ap-
pendix to the Prospectus" containing
| queries, doubts and difficulties relative
to vernacular version of the Holy Scrip
lures" In 1888 and following years, be
issued g Proposals for Printing" and sew
eral ANSWERS to the advice he had re-
ceived. After all these preliminary -four
ishes in 1892 the first volume appeared of
a translation which was never completed.
Christians of every description rejected
it; and the Catholics, for whose benefit
it was intended, were forbidden to read it.
Yet another address !" in defence the
following year, and the project ends. In
what he has translated, Geddes introduces
as to Hebrew "constables," and the pass
over is rather humorously translated ''the
Skipover."
| From those Numbered editions let rs
now GO back to the first complete printed
Bible--that by John Fust or Faust,
printed at Mayence, in Germany, in l455.
This magnificent work was executed with
cut metal types on six hundred and thirty
seven leaves, some Of the copies on fne
paper and others on vellum, and is some
times known as the Mazarin Bible"
copy having been unexpectedly found in
Cardinal Mazarin's library in Paris Il il
also called the Forty-two Line Bible"
because each full column contains that
number of lines; and, lastly, as Guten-
berg's Bible, because John Gutenberg
was associated with Fust and Schoffer In
its issue. It was printed in Latin, and
the letters were such IN exact imitation
of the work Of an amanuensis that the
copies were passed OF by Fnst, when he
visited Paris, Is manuscripts, the discov-
cry of the art of printing being kept
profound secret. Fust sold copy to the
king of France for seven hundred CROWNS,
and another to the Archbishop Of Paris
for four hundred crowns although be
appears to have charged less noble custo-
mers as low ~ sixty crowns The low
price and the uniformity Of the lettering
Of these Bibles caused universal astouish-
ment. The capital letters In red ink were
said to be printed with his blood and -
he could Immediately Prodncs new copies
dd t6itnm, he was adJudged in league
with Satan. Fust was spprehended and
was forced to reveal the newly discovered
art of printing 10 save himself from the
flames. This Is supposed TO be the origin
of the tradition OF the Devil and DR..
Faustus," dramatised by Christopher
Marlowe and others
One Of the highest prices, If not tie
highest, realized Tor any book, was for
COPY Of this splendid Bible At the sale Of
the = Perkins Library At Hamworth
Park, on the 9Th of Jane, 1878. a copy