The Greek and English Testament : Hē Kainē Diathēkē, ex editione Stephani tertia, 1550 ; the New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: according to the Authorised Version / edited for the Syndics of the University Press by the Rev. James Scholefield.

Accession number: 
PML 352711
Uniform title: 
Bible. New Testament. Greek. 1850.
Published: 
Cambridge : University Press ; London : John W. Parker, 1850.
Description: 
[544] pages ; 17 cm
Credit: 
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Notes: 

"The Greek and English texts arranged in parallel columns."
The "Notice" (page [3]), mainly reprinted from Scholefield's edition of 1836, states that there are only 4 changes from the Greek text of the 1550 edition, apart from occasional changes in the punctuation and correction of manifest typographical errors.
Scholefield had published similar editions in 1834 and 1836.
In the title, "Hē Kainē Diathēkē" is in Greek type.
The Greek and English texts, divided into verses, are printed in parallel columns on each page, with parallel references and notes of alternative renderings in a central column between them.

Binding: 
Brown leather stamped in gilt on spine; edges gilded.
Variant Title: 

Kainē Diathēkē

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Inscription in red ink on front flyleaf: George Gordon from Edward G. Phillimore[?], Amicus Amico d.d. Monday, October 31st 1898, Keble College. Oxford; inscription in unknown hand in black ink on front flyleaf: E.B. This book came from the library of the late Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (sou Lewis Carroll) -- E.F.S.; inscription in unknown hand in black ink on verso of front flyleaf: Charles Dodgson, A Birthday Gift from his affectionate children, 1855.

Provenance: 
Inscribed to Charles Dodgson; inscribed to George Gordon; from the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection.
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