Bible Exhibition, 1911: Guide to the Manuscripts and Printed Books Exhibited in Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Authorized Version. With Eight Plates |
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... copies , at Oxford and elsewhere , which claim to have been brought to Canterbury by Augustine , and which at any rate belonged to the southern Church at a very early period . At this stage there was no need for a Bible A 2 INTRODUCTION ...
... copies , at Oxford and elsewhere , which claim to have been brought to Canterbury by Augustine , and which at any rate belonged to the southern Church at a very early period . At this stage there was no need for a Bible A 2 INTRODUCTION ...
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... copies of it have survived , with a portion of a seventh ; and one , which belonged to the great monastery of Christ Church , Canterbury ( now Canterbury Cathedral ) , and subsequently to Archbishop Cranmer , is here exhibited ( no . 21 ) ...
... copies of it have survived , with a portion of a seventh ; and one , which belonged to the great monastery of Christ Church , Canterbury ( now Canterbury Cathedral ) , and subsequently to Archbishop Cranmer , is here exhibited ( no . 21 ) ...
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... copies in Latin ( see nos . 17 , 18 ) . It was not until the fourteenth century that any corresponding develop- ment in the demand for vernacular Bibles is noticeable ; and until near the end of that century the demand was satisfied by ...
... copies in Latin ( see nos . 17 , 18 ) . It was not until the fourteenth century that any corresponding develop- ment in the demand for vernacular Bibles is noticeable ; and until near the end of that century the demand was satisfied by ...
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... copies are still known to exist . One , a handsome copy which formerly belonged to Thomas of Woodstock , Duke of Gloucester , uncle of Richard II ( beheaded in 1397 ) , is included in the present exhibition ( no . 24 ) . The rank of its ...
... copies are still known to exist . One , a handsome copy which formerly belonged to Thomas of Woodstock , Duke of Gloucester , uncle of Richard II ( beheaded in 1397 ) , is included in the present exhibition ( no . 24 ) . The rank of its ...
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... copies are known to have been in the possession of religious houses without ( apparently ) any suspicion of heresy attaching to them . The persecution of Lollards was , in fact , intermittent , and depended largely on the prepossessions ...
... copies are known to have been in the possession of religious houses without ( apparently ) any suspicion of heresy attaching to them . The persecution of Lollards was , in fact , intermittent , and depended largely on the prepossessions ...
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Page 52 - The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New : Newly Translated out of the Originall tongues : and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by his Maiesties special! Comandement. Appointed to be read in churches.
Page 10 - I defer to speak at this time and understood at the last not only that there was no room in my lord of London's palace to translate the new testament, but also that there was no place to do it in all England, as experience doth now openly declare.
Page 52 - No marginal notes at all to be affixed, but only for the explanation of the Hebrew or Greek words which cannot, without some circumlocution, so briefly and fitly be expressed in the text.
Page 10 - I am the gladder," said Tyndale, " for these two benefits shall come thereof : I shall get money to bring myself out of debt, and the whole world shall cry out against the burning of God's Word ; and the overplus of the money that shall remain to me shall make me more studious to correct the said New Testament, and so newly to imprint the same once again, and I trust the second will much better like you than ever did the first.
Page 14 - Every body that could bought the book, or busily read it, or got others to read it to them, if they could not themselves ; and divers more elderly people learned to read on purpose. And even little boys flocked among the rest to hear portions of the Holy Scripture read.
Page 42 - The Byble in/ Englyshe, that is to saye the con-/tent of all the holy scrypture, bothe/ of ye olde and newe testament, truly/ translated after the veryte of the/ Hebrue and Greke textes, by ye dy-/lygent studye of dyuerse excellent/ learned men, expert in the forsayde/ tonges./ C Prynted by Rychard Grafton I/ Edward Whitchurch./ Cum priuilegio ad imprimen-/dum solum./ 1539-/ \Colophon\ The ende of the new Testamet :/ and of the whole Byble, Fynisshed in Apryll,/ Anno.
Page 52 - THE ordinary Bible read in the church, commonly called the Bishops Bible, to be followed, and as little altered, as the truth of the original will permit.
Page 14 - That ye shall provide on this side the feast of next coming, one book of the whole Bible of the largest volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said church that ye have cure of, whereas your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it...
Page 43 - The Byble in Englyshe of the largest and greatest volume, auctorysed and apoynted by the commaundemente of oure moost redoubted Prynce, and soueraygne Lorde Kynge Henrye the .viii. supreme heade of this his churche and Realme of Englande : to be frequented and. vsed...
Page 46 - The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrue and Greke and conferred with the best translations in divers langages. With moste profitable annotations upon all the hard places, and other things of great importance as may appeare in the Epistle to the Reader.