1594 Geneva Breeches BIBLE English Barker Puritans & Pilgrims Herrey Concordance

1594 Geneva Breeches BIBLE English Barker Puritans & Pilgrims Herrey Concordance

An exceedingly rare 16^th-century Geneva Bible complete with Old and New Testaments, Grashop’s Bible Chart, and The Address to the Christian Reader. The Geneva version was translated into English by William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, and Thomas Sampson. This 1594 printing is exceedingly rare and is printed in double-column, black letter type with verse numbers (The Geneva Bible was the first English Bible to use verse numbers). Each page is filled with references and notes in the margins.

This example is also known as the Breeches Bible, a variation of the Geneva Bible in which the English in Genesis 3:7 uses the word ‘breeches’ which was continued to be used through the King James 1611 English. Even after the 1611 King James English Bible was published, the Geneva Bible would still be edition of choice of the Puritans into the mid-17^th-century.

The Church of England did not recognize the Geneva Bible as canon and thus had no official status in the English Church; however, all readers of the Geneva Bible were given aid in understanding scripture through the help of T. Grashop’s Bible Chart which advises the reader on how to approach the biblical text. This edition, like other Barker versions, includes the additions of R.F. Herrey and Grashop and is supplemented by Herrey’s “Two Right Profitable and Fruitfull Concordances”.

Item number: #26877

Price: $3500

Geneva Bible

The Bible, 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, as may appeare in the Epistle to the Reader. And also a most profitable Concordance for the readie finding out of anything in the same conteined.

Imprinted at London by the deputies of Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, 1594.

Details:

• Collation:
  • Old Testament – [4], 434 leaves
    • Wanting leaf 359
    • Other pagination errors expected
  • New Testament – [8], 441-554 leaves
  • Concordances – Unpaginated
• References: USTC 512563
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; secure
• Size: ~8.25in X 6.75in (21cm x 17cm)
• Exceedingly rare, valuable, and desirable

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