Highlights of the Exhibition
The Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Bible Collection
at
Bridwell
Library
1996-2006
September 7-November 18, 2006
First Dutch Old Testament
[Dutch Old Testament]. Vetus Testamentum. 1 volume
bound in 2. Delft: Jacob Jacobszoen
van der Meer and Mauricius Yemantszoen, 10 January 1477.
The earliest printed vernacular Bible translation in the Prothro
collection is the Dutch Old Testament that Jacob Jacobszoen van der Meer
and Mauricius Yemantszoen published at Delft on 10 January 1477. This
editio princeps of a vernacular Bible followed only the German
(Strasbourg, by 1466), Italian (Venice, 1471), and French (Lyons,
c.1473–76). The Dutch Old Testament of 1477 was based on a translation
of the fourteenth century. Like most of the surviving manuscript
versions, it lacks the Psalter, which generally appeared as an
independent text; the New Testament was not printed until 1524.
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