The text of the New Testament of Iesus Christ
Subtitle: translated out of the vulgar Latine by the Papists of the traiterous Seminaire at Rhemes : with arguments of bookes, chapters, and annotations, pretending to discouer the corruptions of diuers translations, and to cleare the controuersies of these days : vvereunto is added the translation out of the original Greeke, commonly vsed in the Church of England : with a confutation of all such arguments, glosses, and annotations, as conteine manifest impietie, of heresie, treason and slander, against the Catholicke Church of God, and the true teachers thereof, or the translations vsed in the Church of England, both by auctoritie of the Holy Scriptures, and by the testimonie of the ancient fathers
By: by William Fulke, doctor in diuinitie
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- 1655
Publisher: By the deputies of Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes Most Excellent Maiestie
Published: 1589
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng; lat; grc
Number of pages: 496
Subjects: Controversial literature; Early works to 1800; Versions, Catholic vs. Protestant; Translations into English; Bishops; Catholic Church; Bible
Other titles: Text of the New Testament of Iesvs Christ
Work titles: Bible New Testament English Rheims 1589
Notes: "The Rheims version and the Bishops’ Bible version in parallel columns, with Fulke’s commentary at the end of each chapter. The Rheims version is translated from the Vulgate chiefly by Gregory Martin; the Bishops’ Bible translation was overseen by Matthew Parker"--English short title catalogue.

Signatures: *⁴ A-Y⁶ 2A-2Y⁶ 3A-3Y⁶ 4A-4V⁶ 4X⁴.

Leaves 2-3, 4, 5, 11, 22, 28, 33, 165, 172, 205-206, 215, 218-219, 230-231, 242-243, 294, 306, 309, 329, 361, 419, 453, 465 misnumbered 3-4, 7, 6, 12, 21, 26, 15, 162, 179, 212-213, 115, 224-225, 236-237, 278-249, 293, 300, 303, 328, 353, 417, 447, 471, respectively.

Title within decorative woodcut border; head- and tail-pieces; initials.

Includes index.

English short title catalogue, entry S107061

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), entry 2888

Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society, entry 156

Former owner's signature on front pastedown: Thomas Charles Price, 1842; signature "T.C. Price" on title page.

Bookplate and signature of Gwynne Blakemore Evans; signature dated 1930.

Autograph of Charles Osborne (1758).

Manuscript annotations throughout, some trimmed at head and fore-edge; bibliographic annotations in several hands on front pastedown and title page..

Laid in: 1 sheet and 1 clipping from dealers' catalogs; sheet is from a catalog of Thomas Thorp.

Bound calf over boards with blind tooled border; front board detached and rear board lacking; spine broken and several gatherings detached; in CMI case.

Bound in calf; rebacked.