Accession number
PML 930-31
Published
Printed at Doway : By Laurence Kellam ..., 1609-1610.
Notes
Errors in paging.
First edition of the Old Testament of the Douai version of the English Bible; the New Testament was first published in Rheims in 1582 under title: The New Testament of Jesus Christ, translated faithfully into English, out of the authentical Latin. Translation mainly by Gregory Martin, under supervision of William Allen and Richard Bristow. Annotations and tables ascribed to Thomas Worthington. Cf. British and Foreign Bible Society. Library. Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture ... compiled by T. H. Darlow and H. F. Moule, 1963. v. 1, no. 231; also no. 134 for N.T.
The Old Testament had been translated at the same time as the New, but was not published due to lack of funds.
Title within ornamental border.
First edition of the Old Testament of the Douai version of the English Bible; the New Testament was first published in Rheims in 1582 under title: The New Testament of Jesus Christ, translated faithfully into English, out of the authentical Latin. Translation mainly by Gregory Martin, under supervision of William Allen and Richard Bristow. Annotations and tables ascribed to Thomas Worthington. Cf. British and Foreign Bible Society. Library. Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture ... compiled by T. H. Darlow and H. F. Moule, 1963. v. 1, no. 231; also no. 134 for N.T.
The Old Testament had been translated at the same time as the New, but was not published due to lack of funds.
Title within ornamental border.
Description
2 v. ; 22 cm
Binding
1/2 brown morocco.
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