The Holy Bible : containing the Old Testament and the New / newly translated out of the originall tongues and with ye former translations diligently compared and revised, by his Majesties special command ... appointed to be read in churches.

Accession number: 
PML 79805
Uniform title: 
Bible. English. Authorized. 1638.
Published: 
[Cambridge] : Tho. Buck and Roger Daniel, [1638]
Description: 
506 leaves (2 col., 68 lines) ; 40 cm
Notes: 

Contains Apocrypha.
Fol. 1 blank, fol. 2 the title, engraved by Marshall; fols. 5-7 Ded., To the Reader and Table: Text, O.T. 321 leaves, Apocra. 76 leaves, N.T. 102 leaves.
See, also, Henry Cotton, Editions of the Bible, etc. p. 69, note.
The N.T. has a special t.p. dated Cambridge, 1638. English t.p in second state.
This edition is said to have been "revised Mandato regio, by the learned Doctor Ward, Doctor Goad of Hadley, Mr. Boyse, Mr. Mead, &c." -- See Lea Wilson, Bibles, etc. p. 109. This Bible remained the standard text until Dr. Paris' ed. Cambridge, 1762.

Binding: 
Red velvet, silk, beads and metallic thread, Charles I's copy, embroidered with English royal arms.
Provenance: 
Charles I, King of England (1600-1649); from Lord Amherst's collection with his exlibris.
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