Accession number
PML 5440
Published
Cambridge [Mass.] : Printed by Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson, MDCLXIII. [1663]
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Seven states, differing in the number of certain preliminary leaves, are described in Pilling, J.C. Bibliography of the Algonquian languages, and summarized by Evans.
Second title page, p. [9]: Mamusse wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God naneeswe Nukkone Testament kah wonk Wusku Testament. Ne quoshkinnumuk nashpe wuttinneumoh Christ noh asoowesit John Eliot. Cambridge: Printeuoop nashpe Samuel Green kah Marmaduke Johnson. 1663.
Dedicated to Charles II.
Printed in two columns.
"The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Translated into the Indian language, and ordered to be printed ... Cambridg: Printed by Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson. MDCLXI."--p. [841-1104], with separate title page. With a second title page in Algonquian ("Wusku Wuttestamentum Nul-Lordumun Jesus Christ nuppoquohwussuaeneumun."). Also issued separately (Evans 64).
The New Testament is dated 1661.
The Psalms of David, with caption title: VVame ketoohomae uketoohomaongash David, p. [1105-1204].
Rules for Christian living, by John Eliot, in Algonquian, p. [1205-1206].
First ed. of Eliot's Indian Bible. The "first variety" of Pilling, with English & Indian t.p.s and the dedication to Prince Charles, with each part. See Pilling, J.C. Bibliography of the Algonquian languages, p. 139-145.
Copy no. 1 of Pilling's list, with ms. notes on flyleaf.
Collation: 602 ff. (1, 421, 550 & 602 blanks). 2 cols. entirely in Algonquian. ff 551-600: Psalms in meter; f601: Rules for Christian living.
Second title page, p. [9]: Mamusse wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God naneeswe Nukkone Testament kah wonk Wusku Testament. Ne quoshkinnumuk nashpe wuttinneumoh Christ noh asoowesit John Eliot. Cambridge: Printeuoop nashpe Samuel Green kah Marmaduke Johnson. 1663.
Dedicated to Charles II.
Printed in two columns.
"The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Translated into the Indian language, and ordered to be printed ... Cambridg: Printed by Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson. MDCLXI."--p. [841-1104], with separate title page. With a second title page in Algonquian ("Wusku Wuttestamentum Nul-Lordumun Jesus Christ nuppoquohwussuaeneumun."). Also issued separately (Evans 64).
The New Testament is dated 1661.
The Psalms of David, with caption title: VVame ketoohomae uketoohomaongash David, p. [1105-1204].
Rules for Christian living, by John Eliot, in Algonquian, p. [1205-1206].
First ed. of Eliot's Indian Bible. The "first variety" of Pilling, with English & Indian t.p.s and the dedication to Prince Charles, with each part. See Pilling, J.C. Bibliography of the Algonquian languages, p. 139-145.
Copy no. 1 of Pilling's list, with ms. notes on flyleaf.
Collation: 602 ff. (1, 421, 550 & 602 blanks). 2 cols. entirely in Algonquian. ff 551-600: Psalms in meter; f601: Rules for Christian living.
Description
[1208] p. ; 20 cm.
Provenance
Presentation copy from Eliot to Thomas Shepard (perhaps Thomas Shephard II, son of Thomas Shephard (1605-1649)?), with autograph of Shephard, 1666, on flyleaf and f5. Other owners listed on front fly leaf: Rev. Thomas Shepard (son); Thomas Nixon and his son Thomas Nixon, Jr., Warren Nixon; Library of the American Bible Union (New York), sold to J.W. Boughton for Theodore Irwin; Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Brown morocco, richly gilt, by Francis Bedford for Irwin, with invoice dated 5 Jan. 1880. In a blue morocco case.
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