The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
By: Translated into the Indian language, and ordered to be printed by the commissioners of the united colonies in New-England, at the charge, and with the consent of the Corporation in England for the Propagation of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New-England
Contributors: Indigenous Languages Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library)
Publisher: Printed by Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson.
Published: 1661
Place of publication: Cambridg, [Mass.]
Language: alg
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Texts; Indian linguistics; Massachuset language
Work titles: Bible. New Testament Massachusett. Eliot. 1661
Notes: Text in Massachuset; printed in double columns.

Special title page: Wusku Wuttestamentum Nul-Lordumun Jesus Christ Nuppoquohwussuaeneumun. Cambridge: Printed by Samuel Green and Marmakuke Johnson. MDCLXI. p.[9]

Translated by John Eliot, cf. Evans.

Later issued as part of the 1663 Massachuset Bible.

According to Christopher Du Hamel in his The Book. A history of the Bible, fourty English titles pages and dedications to Charles II were added to this work, which was printed before the Old Testament. The copy in the Doheny Collection might have been presented to Charles II.

Signatures: A⁴ ²A-L⁴ 2A-2X⁴ (A1, 2X4 blank)

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 3:55-56.

Evans 64.

Sabin 22155.

Pilling, J.C.  Bib. Algonquian languages, 132-138.

Church, E.D.  Discovery 572.

Wing (CD-Rom, 1996) B2757

English short title catalogue W38304

Digital version available on Internet Archive.

John Carter Brown Library copy one bound in contemporary calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy one bound in contemporary calf with ornate gold tooling; possibly presented to Charles II.

John Carter Brown Library copy two contains note attached inside front cover: Sunday 25 Jan 1795 I took this testament from the Prince of Oranges Library in his palace at Loo which was abandoned to pillage as a memorial of the melancholoy scene.--H. Turner.