Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-19

applied generally to insects. From
it are derived the modern words
DOGGY and "buga boo" The title of
this Bible is as follows: "The Byble,
that is TO say all the Holy Scripture
in which are contayned the olde and
new testamente. truly and purely
traslated into English and now lately
with great industry and diligece recog-
Missed. imprinted at London by John
Daye, dwelling at Aldersgate. and Will
liam Sores, dwelling in Peter Col
ledge"
There are two copies of the Mathew
Bible at the Library. but both are
mutiIated. Unfortunately in both
copies the chapter heading. of the
second chapter of the second epistle
of Peter is missing. This reads in
other copies: And yf she be not
obedient and healpfull unto hymn
endevoureth to beate the feare Of God
into her head that therby she may
be compelled to learne her dutie and
do it." The old scriptural editor lived
long before the day of the rights Of
woman.
The next copy, in point of time, is
Of the Geneva version Of the New
Testament, translated by Theodore
Beza and "englyshed" by l.. Tomson.
X \
TIT 1882 comes the first of the Bibles
still in use. the Catholic Douai
version of the New Testament, printed
at Reims by John Fogney at the Eng
lish Catholic College. This translation
was made under the direction of Car
dinal William Allen. president of the
English college at Douai, which had
been moved temporarily to Reims. The
actual work seems to have been done
by a priest named Gregory Martin.
who had been an oxford scholar and
who died at Douai in 1852, The first
edition of the Douai version of the
Old Testament in the Library of Con
gress was printed in 1910 at Douai by
Lawrence Keelam "at the signe of the
hole Lambe" The title page reads:
THE hole Bible faithfully translated
into English out of the authentical
Latin diligently conferred with the
Hebrew, Greeke and other editions In
divers languages by the English Col
lege."
TIL next year, 1911, marked the first
publication of the famous King James
Bible. which is used generally in Prot
estant churches, although in later
printing some errors have been cor
TGELGu. l. HIS lAdIISldLlOIt, IiIctiC NY IL
commission of English chTchmen
and scholars at the Kings command.
was based somewhat on the Tyndale
and Wyckliff Bibles, and possibly some
use was made of the Douai version,
although the closenesS of the two
dates makes this doubtful. This edi-
ton, imprinted at London by Robert
Barker, printer to the Kings most ex-
cellent majestic" is sometimes called
the He" Bible, due to the 18th verse
of the first chapter of Ruth, which
reads: "He went into the city" All
other editions changed this to She. "
In the Library of Congress collection
are two editions of the pOlyglot Bible
in the original tongues. The first is a
copy of the royal polyglot" published
under the patronage of Philip the Sec
ond of Spain. 1t is in eight volumes
Greek. Latin and Syriac. This edition
was printed at Antwerp by Christie.
pher Plantin in 1872. The general editor
was Benedictus Arias, a Benedictine
monk and one of the most learned
Oriental scholars of the time.
There is also the fourth and last
edition of the polyglot, printed at Lon
don in 1867 and edited by DIR. Bryan
Walton, Bishop of Chester. The first
edition of the Martin Luther Bible, in
German, in the Library collection, was
printed at Wittenberg in 1885 under the
patronage of the Elector of SaXony.
The second edition in the collection
was issued at StrasSburg in 1914. Be
sides the text of Luther's translation
of the Scriptures the edition is illus
trated with Woodcuts by Tobias Slim
mer and contains numerous notes by
Daniel Schade and Bartholomaus Mas
ser.
The first of the French editions,
translated from the Vulgate and COM
pared with the Hebrew and Greek by
the priests and scholars of the church
at Geneva. IS dated 1906. Bound at
the end are the psalms put in French
rime by Clement Marot and also a col.
lection of psalms in English verse.
There are several French editions of
the Geneva version. which have played
prominent part in biblical interpre-
tations and criticism.
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A MONG the treasures of the Library
of Congress is a copy of the sec
Ond edition Of the first publication of
the Bible in n European language in
the United States. This was printed
in German at Philadelphia in 1875 by
Christoph Sauer. The principal part
of this edition, in sheets, is said to
have been converted into cartridge
paper during the Revolutionary War.
There is also the edition of the New
Testament published in 1887 by the
Ephrata Cloistcr of German pietists
in Pennsylvania in 1887. All of these
German editions followed closely the
original translation of Martin Luther
The library also has q fine represen.
tation of old latin Bibles. Among
them is the latin version of Erasmus,
dated 1886. The book of Revelations
is finely illustrated with wood cuts
The library is concerned chiefly
with the collection OF Americana and
has devoted little attention to secur-
ing celebrated editions Of the Pible
from Europe. Most Of these now are
held at such high prices that their
purchase by a public institution would
be out of the question. Among the
editions lacking is th3 most celebrated
of all, the Gutenberg Bible. The IA.
nous Bay Psalm Book, printed in
Massachusetts,, and one OF the most
treasured of all old American books.
also is lacking. The collection CON
tains a first edition OF John Elliot's
translation OF the Bible into the In.
dian language. printed at Cambridge
in 1868 by Samuel Green and Marina
duke Johnson. The title reads in the
tongue of the Massachusetts Indians:
"Mamvsse wunneetupanatamwe up-bi-
llum God maneeSWe nukkone tesla.
ment kah wonk wusku testament. No
quoshkinnumuk nashpe wuttinnel-
moh Christ no asooweslt."
When Thomas Jefferson's private
library was turned over to the Ii
brary of Congress 1t contained his
own copy of Charles Thomson's trans.
lation of the Bible printed at Philadel.
phia in 1903 and marked with the
initials, 1T. j." at various places
throughout the book.