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Highlights of the Exhibition
The Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Bible
Collection
at
Bridwell Library
1996-2006
September 7-November 18, 2006
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1. [Biblia latina]. Illuminated manuscript on parchment. [Paris, France: c.
1250]. Genesis 1:1.
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2. [New Testament in Middle English, Wycliffite version]. Manuscript on
parchment.
[England: possibly London, c. 1400–1425]. John 1:1. Note: Link missal to this
entry.
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3. [Missal]. Use of Sarum. Illuminated manuscript on vellum. [Salisbury,
England: c.1418].
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4. Biblia latina. Single vellum leaf. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg, 1454-55].
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5. Biblia latina. Strasbourg: [Adolf Rusch, c.1473]
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6. Biblia latina. Basel: Bernhard Richel, [not after 1474]. |
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7. Biblia latina cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra. Vol. 2 of 4. Venice: [Johann
Herbort for] Johann von Köln, Nicholas Jenson, and Associates, 31 July 1481.
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8. [Dutch Old Testament]. Vetus Testamentum. Delft: Jacob Jacobszoen van der
Meer and Mauricius Yemantszoen, 10 January 1477. |
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9. Biblia latina. Basel: Johann Froben, 27 October 1495.
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10. Psalterium Beatae Mariae Virginis [Dutch]. Antwerp: Gerard Leeu, 8 October
1491. |
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11. Biblia polyglotta. Edited by Diego Lopez de Zuńiga et al.. Alcalá de Henares:
Arnao Guillén de Brocar, 1514–17. The Complutensian polyglot. |
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12. Novum Testamentum omne multo quam antehac diligentius ab Erasmo Roterodamo
recognitum, emendatum ac translatum. Edited, translated, and annotated by
Desiderius Erasmus. Basel: Johannes Froben, 1519. |
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13. Das Allte Testament deutsch. Translated by Martin Luther. Wittenberg: [Melchior
Lotter the Younger for Lucas Cranach and Christian Döring], 1523-24. Sacrifice
of Isaac.
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14. Biblia, das ist, die gantze Heilige Schrifft deudsch. Translated by Martin
Luther. Woodcuts by Lucas Cranach the Younger and Melchior Scharzenberg or
Martin Schaffner. Second edition. Wittenberg: Hans Luft, 1535.
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15. The Newe Testament yet Once Agayne Corrected by Willyam Tindale. [Antwerp?:
s.n.], 1536. Tyndale's New Testament.
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16. William Tyndale. The Parable of the Wycked Mammon Taken Out of the .xvi. Ca.
of Luke. [Malborowe, Hesse: Hans Luft, 1528 (i.e. London, 1537?)]. Note to
the reader.
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17. Biblia. The Bible that is, the Holy Scripture of the Olde and New Testament,
Faithfully and Truly Translated out of Douche and Latyn in to Englishe.
Translated by Miles Coverdale. [Marburg: Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes
Soter?], 1535. The Coverdale Bible. |
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18. The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament.
Translated by William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson et al. Geneva:
Rouland Hall, 1560.
The Geneva Bible.
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19. The Holie Bible, Conteynyng the Olde Testament and the Newe. Edited by
Archbishop Matthew Parker et al. [London: Richard Jugge, 1568].
The Bishops'
Bible.
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20. The New Testament of Jesus Christ. Rheims: John Fogny, 1582.
First Roman Catholic translation of the New Testament. |
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21. The Holie Bible Faithfully Translated into English out of the Authentical
Latin. Douay: Laurence Kellam, 1609-10.
First Roman Catholic translation of
the Bible.
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22. The Holy Bible Conteyning the Old Testament and the New. Newly Translated
out of the Originall Tongues: & with the Former Translations Diligently Compared
and Revised by His Majesties Special Comandement. London: Robert Barker, 1611.
First edition of the King James Version. |
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23. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament and the New. London: Robert
Barker, 1612.
"He" Bible.
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24. The Holy Bible, Containing the Olde Testament, and the New. London: Robert
Barker and John Bill, 1630.
"She" Bible.
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25. [Massachuset Bible]. Mamusse wunneetupanatamwe up-biblum God naneeswe
nukkone testament kah wonk wusku testament. Translated by John Eliot. Second
edition. Cambridge,
[Massachusetts]: Samuel Green, 1685.
Second edition of the Eliot Bible. |
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26. Biblia das ist: Die Heilige Schrift. Germantown [i.e., Philadelphia]:
Christoph Saur, 1743.
First Bible published in an European language in North
America. |
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27. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. 2
vols. in 1. Philadelphia: R. Aitken, 1782.
First American Bible
published in English. |
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28. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New. Engravings by
James Thornhill and Michael van der Gucht. Oxford: John Baskett, 1717.
 The "Vinegar" Bible.
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29. John Wesley. Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament. London: William Bowyer,
1755.
Proof copy. Annotations in John Wesley's hand. |
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29(a). John Wesley. Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament.
London: William Bowyer, 1755.
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30. The English Bible Containing the Old Testament & the New. London: Doves
Press, 1903-05. 5 vols.
Fine press edition.
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