Formatting the Word of God: The Charles Caldwell Ryrie Collection

10. The Bible as Battlefield

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THE GENEVA BIBLE
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. Geneva: Rouland Hall, 1560.
Quarto. 1228 pages ([4], 474, 122 leaves, [28] pages, 6 folded leaves of plates), 9⅛ x 6½ inches. Roman, marginal notes in small roman type, double column. Title page illustration represents the Israelites crossing the Red Sea; 26 engravings enhance the text; 5 folded maps. Bound with the stamp of the Royal Arms laid down over a new calfskin base. Title page mounted with imprint cut away; lacking maps. § DMH 107, with tables and metrical Psalms (1588); STC (2nd ed.) 2093.


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