Original leaves from famous Bibles : nine centuries 1121-1935 A.D.
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Original leaves from famous Bibles : nine centuries 1121-1935 A.D.
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Consists of 1 prelim. leaf and 37 individually matted original leaves, with a printed explanatory caption mounted on each mat
Title from prelim. leaf
12th century: Leaf from an Armenian manuscript Bible (vellum 1121 A.D.)
13th century: Leaf from a miniature manuscript Bible (vellum ca. 1240 A.D.)
14th century: Leaf from a Paris manuscript Bible (vellum ca. 1310 A.D.)
15th century: Leaves from: an Italian incunabula Bible (1495 A.D.), a Koberger Latin Bible (1497 A.D.)
16th century: Leaves from: the Aldine Greek Bible (1518 A.D.), a Bible of the Low Countries (1532 A.D.), a suppressed Luther Bible (1541 A.D.), a Matthew Bible (1549 A.D.), a Great Bible (1549 A.D.), Giustiniani's Hebrew-Latin Bible (1551 A.D.), a Stephanus Latin Bible (1555 A.D.), a Plantin Louvain Bible (1565 A.D.), a Stephanus Greek New Testament (1569 A.D.), a Bishops' Bible (1575 A.D.), a Genevan or "Breeches Bible" (1592 A.D.), the Hamburg polyglot (1596 A.D.)
17th century: Leaves from: a Fulke's New Testament (1601 A.D.), the second printed Spanish Bible (1602 A.D.), the King James Bible (1611 A.D.), ibid. (1611 A.D., Darlow and Moule 240), the Pearl Bible (1653 A.D.), the London polyglot Bible (O.T. 1655 A.D.), ibid. (N.T. 1657 A.D.), an Elzevir States-General Bible (1663 A.D.), an Eliot Indian Bible (1685 A.D.)
18th century: Leaves from: a Baskett Bible (1740 A.D.), a Germantown Bible (1763 A.D.), the Baskerville Cambridge Bible (1763 A.D.), a Baskerville Birmingham Bible (1769 A.D.), the Thomas Greek New Testament (1800 A.D.)
19th century: Leaves from: a Thomson's Bible (1808 A.D.), the Polychrome Bible (1899 A.D.)
20th century: Leaves from: Doves Bible (1903-1905 A.D.), a miniature Bible (1919 A.D.), the Nonesuch Bible (1924-1925), the Rogers Oxford Lectern Bible (1935 A.D.)
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