with title: The newe Testamente in Englishe . . . (within border), verso blank, text— ff. ii to xcii (really 93, M 5) b; followed by A Table to fynde the Epystles and Gospels vsually read in the churche, after Salysbury vse -2 ff. (not numbered), ending on M 76 with the colophon: The ende... Imprinted at London by Richarde Grafton, printer to the Kinges highnes. An. M.D.LIII. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum; 1 f. blank.

Signatures: [unsigned]2, a—z® A–Z® &o 91, A-M3; 478 ff. The numbering of the leaves is most incorrect. Printed in an extremely small wiry type; double columns, with 62 lines to the full column. No contents before chapters; but references in the margins. In pt. 1 the daily lessons are marked in the margins, and the appropriate months in the headlines. Thus on Hija December is printed in the headline, The .xxx. daie Mattins in the margin beside chap. lxiii (of Isaiah), and Euensong at the side of chap. lxiv.

The border used for the three titles is a narrow frame composed of four blocks, of architectural design.

Herbert (p. 536) and Cotton (p. 29) assert that some copies of this edition bear the names of R. Grafton and E. Whitchurch as the printers (cf. Lewis, p. 384).

186 × 132 mm.

Another copy.

[F. F.]

174 × 124 mm. Imperfect: wanting general title and following leaf; a 1 to 5, 7 and 8, c 1; N. T. title, A 8, and the Table (2 ff.); —14 ff. The blank leaf (M 8) is also missing. Inserted at the beginning are 8 ff. taken from a Bible (1611 version), dated 1646. With Metrical Psalms (1642).

73.

1553. The newe Testament of oure Sauiour Jesus Christe. Faythfully translated oute of the Greke. With the notes and expositions of the darke places therein. | Matthew xiii. f. | Vnio, quem præcepit emi seruator Iesus. | Hic situs est, debet non aliunde peti. | The pearle which Christ cōmaunded to be boughte| Ishere to be founde, not elles to be sought.

Tindale's version; Jugge's revision.

R. Jugge: London. [1558.] 4°. B. L.

Fry's No. 32. The second quarto edition of Jugge's revision.

The date is not given, but is generally believed to be 1553, the first year of the Almanack; it is undoubtedly subsequent to August 1552, since the Table at the end allows for only one Communion on Easter Day.

The copye of the bill..

unbound book.

names twentye & two pence as the limit-price for the

DESCRIPTION. Eighteen preliminary leaves: title (in black and red, with woodcut), on verso The copye of the bill. dated At Grenewiche the x. of June. M.D.Lii, Dedication -1 f. (signed ¶ ij), Kalendar (first leaf signed iii) --6 ff., An Almanacke for xviii, yeares (1553-70)—1 p., A Table of the principall matters -14 pp., A true and perfect rekenynge -1 p., An exhortation .. -1 f., The description of the lande of promys (the map)-1 p., The life of .. Saynte Mathewe -1 p. Text: (1) A j to z iii b, followed by The Carte Cosmographie of the Peregrination or Jorney of S. Paule, with the distaunce of the Myles (a map and short note)-1 p., The Order of tymes-4 pp., and 1 p. with Jugge's device and imprint; (2) title (with argument on verso), text-Aa ij to Qq 8a; on verso begin the O. T. Epistles, which end on Rr ii b; on the same page begins A Table..., which ends on Rr 4 a with the colophon: Imprinted at London by Rycharde Jugge, dwellinge at the North dore of Paules, at the signe of the Byble. and the block containing the initials R. I.; on verso is Jugge's device.

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Signatures: ¶ (or X), X, A-Ys z6, Aa-Qq Rr; 332 ff. In most particulars this edition closely resembles that of 1552; but, though the headlines are in italic type, the contents before chapters, notes, and marginal references are in black-letter.

Woodcuts generally as in the 1552 edition. A small cut of the creation of Eve occurs at the beginning of A true and perfect rekenynge . . .

¶211 x 155 mm. The title has been mounted.

[F. F.]

1553. The newe Testamente of our Sauiour Jesu Christ. | Faythfully translated out of the Greke. and perused by the commaundement of the kyn- ges maiestie and his honourable counsell, and by them auctorised. I With the Notes and expositions of the darke places therein. | Mathewe. xiii. f. The pearle, whiche Christe commaunded to be bought, Is here to be founde, not elles to be sought.

Tindale's version; Jugge's revision.

R. Jugge: London. [1553.] 8°. B. L.

This edition reproduces many typographical errors from the 1552 quarto Testament, which it closely follows in most particulars.

The date most probably is 1553, as The copy of the byll is dated 29 March 1553, and the Almanacke begins with the same year. Partial allowance is made in the margins, but not in the table, for two Communions on Christmas Day and Easter Day. It was perhaps the last edition of the New Testament published in the reign of Edward VI. Fry had not seen this edition when he wrote A Bibliographical Description . . . It resembles in many points the octavo editions (1561 ?) described below (Nos. 80-83).

In The copy of the byll occur the words ... Forasmuche as the same bokes be nowe come forthe in printe in that kinde of volume which is called the octaue. . . . The pryce of . xii. pence is named as the limit-price for the unbound book.

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DESCRIPTION. Thirty-two preliminary leaves: title (in black and red, with woodcut), on verso The copy of the byll ... (dated At Westminster the. xxix. of Marche. 1553), Dedication-1 f., Kalendar-6 ff., An Almanacke for. xviij. yeares (1553–70)—1 p., A Table of the Principall matters. -41 pp., A true and perfect rekenynge .. -1 p., An exhortation ... (ending with Jugge's device)-2 pp., The description of the lande of promes (the map)-2 pp., The lyfe of... Saynt Mathewe . . . -1 p. The text, Aj to Zz 8a; followed on the same page by The Epistles of the olde Testament, accordyng as they be nowe read, which end on && ij b; A table to fynde the pistles and Gospels reade in the churche of Englande -2 ff., ending on && 4 b with the colophon: Imprinted at London by Richarde Jugge, dwellynge at the North dore of Paules church at the sygne of the Byble. (With the kynge his most gratious lycence, and priuilege) forbyddynge all other men to prynt or cause to be printed, this, or anye other Testament in Englysh.

Signatures: [unsigned] XXXX, A-Z & Aa-Zz3 &&'; 412 ff. Leaves not numbered. A full page contains 35 lines. Life of the Evangelist before each Gospel; arguments before other books (except Revelation). References, and a few notes (especially in Revelation), in margins. Contents before each chapter, and notes generally at the end. The Carte Cosmographie of the Peregrination and iourneye of Saynte Paule .. -a map filling 2 pp.,and The order of tymes . . . -4 pp. (preceded by a note referring to both on Cc 7 a), come after Acts.

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The woodcut on the titlepage is a portrait of Edward VI, within an ornamental frame, like that used for Jugge's quarto Testaments, and his later octavo editions. A small cut of the creation of Eve occurs at the head of A true and perfect rekenynge . . . There are also cuts of the Evangelists, and 20 cuts in Revelation; besides the two maps (mentioned above) and many woodcut initials representing Paul giving his Epistles to messengers. Jugge's device is that with the pelican, and the motto above Cogita mori.

129 x 81 mm.

Wants only one leaf (Aa 1), which was probably lost in rebinding. Contains the book-plate of Lord Hampton.

For a descriptive and critical article on this copy, believed to be unique, see the Athenæum, June 1886. [F. F.] 75.

NOTE. DURING THE REIGN OF EDWARD VI (JANUARY 1547 TO JULY 1553) SOME FORTY EDITIONS APPEARED OF THE Bible or thE NEW TESTAMENT IN ENGLISH. WITH THE ACCESSION OF QUEEN MARY, THE PUBLICATION OF ENGLISH SCRIPTURES SUDDENLY CEASED. HER REIGN WITNESSED THE ISSUE OF ONLY ONE EDITION-THE NEW TESTAMENt of 1557, trANSLATED BY AN EXILE, AND PRInted at GenevA. QUEEN ELIZABETH SUCCEEDED TO THE THRONE IN NOVEMBER 1558; YET NO FRESH ENGLISH EDITION OF the Bible appEARED BEFORE 1561. NOT UNTIL SOME YEARS LATER DID THE ISSUE OF ENGLISH BIBLES REASSUME THE PROPORTIONS WHICH OBTAINED UNDER KING EDWARD.

1557.

ACCESSION OF QUEEN MARY: 6 JULY 1553.

The Nevve Testa- ment of ovr Lord Ie-sus Christ. Conferred diligently with the Greke, and best ap- proued translations. VVith the arguments, as wel before the chapters, as for euery Boke | & Epistle, also diuersities of readings, and moste proffitable | annotations of all harde places wherunto is added a copi- | ous Table. | At Geneva | Printed By Conrad Badius. M. D. LVII.

8°.

This version of the New Testament is ascribed to William Whittingham, one of the band of English reformers who found an asylum at Geneva. The text is based upon Tindale's, compared with the Great Bible, and largely influenced by Beza's Latin translation.

Though this version forms the groundwork of the New Testament in the Geneva Bible of 1560, it is a distinct work, due to one translator, as the Address To the reader seems to show. Fry asserted that the text of this Testament was not reprinted in any of the numerous Geneva Bibles or separate Testaments, from 1560 to 1644, which he had examined. (Cf. Standard Edition of the English New Testament of the Genevan Version, 1864.)

This neat octavo is the earliest English Testament printed in roman type, and with verse divisions. With its elaborate apparatus of arguments, notes and tables, it forms the first critical edition of the New Testament in English.

Whittingham (1524?-1579) married Catherine Jaquemayne or Jaqueman, said to be the sister of Calvin's wife (cf. entry in Geneva archives, cited by Stoughton, Our English Bible, p. 190 n.), but see D. N. B. s.v. W. Whittingham.

DESCRIPTION. Twelve preliminary leaves: title (with engraving), on verso The ordre of the bookes of the Newe testament, with the nomber of Chapters, The Epistle declaring that Christ is the end of the Lawe, By Iohn Caluin-8 ff., To the reader mercie and peace through Christ our Saviour and The Argument of the Gospel, writ by the foure Euangelists-3 ff. The text, ff. 1 to 430 (really 431, Hh 7) b; followed by The Table of the Nevve Testament and A perfecte supputation of the yeres and time from Adam vnto Christ. -49 pp., ending on 455 (really 456, Ll 8) a with the colophon: Printed by Conrad Badivs M.D.LVII. this x. of Ivne, verso blank; 1 f., containing on recto Fautes committed in the printing, verso blank. (In some copies the Fautes are printed on verso of Ll 8, and there is no extra leaf.)

Signatures: ★ ★*, a-z3 A-Z Aa-Lls; 468 ff. (and one extra leaf). Leaves numbered from the beginning of the text to 455; the number 336 is repeated by error. The text is printed in a small, but beautifully clear, roman type; a full page contains 37 lines. Arguments to almost all the books, and contents before each chapter, printed in italics. Notes (in roman type) and some references (in italics) in the margins. The chapters are divided into verses, though the alphabetical divisions, A B C, etc., in the margins are retained. Words not in the Greek are marked by italics.

In the list of Fautes the error fyue thousand in Matt. xvi. 10 is miscorrected to foure hundred.

The symbolical engraving on the titlepage represents Time leading Truth up out of a cavern, with the legend: God by Tyme restoreth Truth and maketh her victoriovs. Many large initials and headpieces.

128 x 85 mm. With the extra leaf at the end.

Another copy.

[FF.]

This copy is possibly an earlier impression, since some mistakes occur in the foliation (e.g. 10 for 110, 306 for 321), which are corrected in the former copy.

121 by x 85 mm. Imperfect: wanting title and all preliminary matter except the last leaf; also 22 leaves of text, and most of the supplementary matter;-53 ff. Facsimiles are inserted of the title and Ll 7, and two copies of L1 8, one with, and the other without, the Fautes on verso.

ACCESSION OF QUEEN ELIZABETH: 17 NOVEMBER 1558.

1560. The Bible | and | Holy Scriptvres | conteyned in the Olde and Newe | Testament. Translated according to the Ebrue and Greke, and conferred With the best translations in diuers langages. | With moste profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance as may appeare in the Epistle to the Reader. At Geneva. I Printed by Rouland Hall. | M.D.LX.

4°.

The first edition of the so-called 'Geneva version'; the earliest English Bible printed in roman type and with verse divisions. Translated by W. Whittingham (see No. 76), Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson, and perhaps others, at Geneva.

The New Testament is a careful revision of Whittingham's Testament of 1557 (q.v.), due to a further comparison with Beza's Latin translation. The Old Testament and Apocrypha are based mainly on the Great Bible, corrected from the original Hebrew and Greek, and compared with the Latin versions of Leo Juda and others; while the influence of the revisers of Olivetan's French Bible is also apparent.

The Geneva Bible showed a distinct advance on its predecessors, and appearing as it did in compact form, with roman type and verse divisions, obtained speedy and permanent popularity. Its arguments and numerous explanatory notes (often distinctly Calvinistic in tone), which amount to a running commentary, endeared it especially to the Puritans, and for three generations it maintained its supremacy as the Bible of the people. Its phrases find an echo in Scripture quotations from Shakespeare to Bunyan. Between 1560 and 1644 at least 140 editions appeared of the Geneva Bible or Testament-120 of which are represented in this Library. Examination of King James' Bible of 1611 shows that its translators in correcting the Bishops' Bible were influenced more by the Geneva than by any other English version.

The cost of the work was defrayed by members of the congregation at Geneva whose heartes God... touched to encourage the revisers not to spare any charges for the fortherance of such a benefite and fauour of God. Conspicuous amongst these was John Bodley (father of the founder of the Bodleian Library), who received from Elizabeth a patent, dated 8 Jan. 1561, for the exclusive right to print the version in England for seven years (Herbert, p. 1603). The Geneva Bible of 1560 and its later editions are often called by the somewhat absurd title of Breeches' Bibles. The rendering breeches (for aprons) in Gen. iii. 7 had already occurred in Wycliffe's MS. Bible, as well as in Caxton's edition of the Golden Legend (1483). Such popular titles as Breeches Bible,' 'Bug Bible,' 'Treacle Bible,' etc., apart from any question of their vulgarity, are generally misleading, and convey no idea of the distinctive interest and importance of each edition.

DESCRIPTION. Four preliminary leaves: title (with woodcut), on verso The names and order of all the bookes Epistle: To the moste Vertvovs and Noble Quene Elisabet, Quene of England, France, ad Ireland, &c. Your humble subiects of the English Churche at Geneua, wish grace and peace from God the Father through Christ Iesus our Lord-2 ff., Address: To our Beloved in the Lord the Brethren of England, Scotland, Ireland, &c. Grace, mercie and peace, through Christ Iesus-1 f. (Both the Epistle and the Address are dated From Geneua. 10. April. 1560.) The text: (1) O. T. and Apocrypha, ff. 1 to 474 (Bbbbb iiii) a, verso blank; (2) N. T., with title: The Newe Testament of our Lord Iesvs Christ, Conferred diligently with the Greke, and best approued translacions in diuers languages. At Geneva. Printed by Rouland Hall. M.D.LX. (with cut), verso blank, text-ff. 2 to 122 (HHh ii) a, verso blank; followed by A brief table of the interpretation of the propre names A table of the principal things. A perfite svppvtation. (with a text at the end-Ioshva Chap. 1. vers. 8. Let not this boke. good successe), and The order of the yeres from Pauls conuersion shewing the time of his peregrination, & of his Epistles writen to the Churches,-27 pp., ending on LLl iiii a, verso blank. Signatures: a-zA-Z' Aa-Zz' & Aaa-Zzz' Aaaa-Zzzz1 Aaaaa' Bbbbb*, AA-ZZ' AAA-LLI; 614 ff. Printed in roman type; double columns, divided into verses. Marginal notes in very small roman type. References etc., and contents

before chapters in italics. Subject headings in headlines. An argument is prefixed to each book. The Hebrew names are carefully spelt and accented, e.g. Iaakób, Izhák, Rebekah, etc.

In Ecclus. xv. 13 occurs the following error (a negative omitted):-The Lord hateth all abominacion [of errour:] and they that feare God, wil loue it.

The cut on the titlepages represents the crossing of the Red Sea; above are the words Feare ye not, stand stil, and beholde the saluacion of the Lord, which he will shewe to you this day. _ Exod. 14, 13, below—The Lord shal fight for you: therefore holde you your peace, Exod. 14, vers. 14, and at the sides-Great are the troubles of the righteous: but the Lord deliuereth them out of all, Psal. 34, 19.

The engravings in the text number 26, and include a plan The sitvacion of the Garden of Eden, and representations of the Flood, the crossing of the Red Sea, the Tabernacle and its furniture, the Temple and its furniture, Solomon's throne, the vision of Ezekiel, etc.; many of these are accompanied by descriptive notes.

The book contains five maps on separate leaves: (1) at Numbers xxxiii (to illustrate the wanderings of the Israelites), (2) at Joshua xv (the division of the land of Canaan), (3) at the end of Ezekiel (The forme of the Temple and citie restored), (4) in St. Matthew (The description of the holie land with a list of places specified. with their situation by the obseruation of the degrees concerning their length and breadth), (5) in Acts (The description of the countreis and places mencioned in the Actes of the Apostles . . . with list of names, etc.).

[F. F.]

245 x 171 mm. The general title slightly mended. The University Library, Cambridge, possesses an exceptionally fine copy on large paper. 77. [The New Testament of this version was published separately in the same year. There is a copy in Lambeth Palace Library.]

1560? Begins: Here be- | gynneth the Pystles | and Gospels, of euerye Son- | day and holy day in the yere.

W. Powell: London. [1560?] 4°. B. L.

An edition of the Liturgical Epistles and Gospels.

DESCRIPTION. Begins on A j: Here begynneth . ff. i to lxvi (R ii) a; on verso Here endeth .. This is the table wherin ye shall vnderstande in what lefe ye shal fynde the Pystels, and Gospels after the vse of Salysbury. 5 pp., ending on

R 4 b with the colophon: Imprynted at London in Fletestrete, by me Wyllyam Powell, dwelynge at the sygne of the George, nexte to saynt Dunstons Churche.

Signatures: A-R'; 68 ff. Leaves numbered in the text. Double columns; 33 lines

to the full column. The running title is The Pystles and Gospels. in Englyshe.

181 x 131 mm. Inserted is a quasi-facsimile title, for which there appears to be no authority.

1560. B. 4°. See 1561.

[F. F.] 78.

1561. The Byble | in Englyshe, that is to say. | The contente of all the | holy Scripture, both of the olde, and newe | Testamente. | Accordynge to the translation that is appoynted to be red in the Churches. | Anno.M.D.LX. Jhon Cawoode: London. 1560,61. 4°. B. L.

Great Bible version.

The colophon is dated 1561.

DESCRIPTION. [Thirty-two] preliminary leaves: title (in black and red, within border), on verso An Almanacke for. xxii. yeres (1559–80), A table for the order of the Psalmes -1 p., The order howe the rest of the holy Scripture . . . is appoynted to be sayde1 p., Kalendar (with table of lessons)-6 ff., Proper Lessons...-5 pp., Proper Psalmes with a note A breife declaration when euery Terme begynneth and endeth-1 p.; The Order vvhere Mornyng and Euenyng Prayer, shall be vsed and sayde—20 ff.; [1 f. blank]. The text, divided into four parts:-(1) Genesis-Job, ff. i to cciii