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The Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Bible Collection |
| Medieval and Renaissance Bibles | Bibles of the Reformation | The English Bible | Early American Bibles |
Nineteenth-Century Missionary Bibles |
Twentieth-Century Limited Editions |
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EARLY AMERICAN BIBLES Bibles from the New World constitute another rich category of the Prothro Collection. This section of the exhibition includes two of the earliest Bibles printed in the Western Hemisphere: John Eliot’s 1685 translation into the Native American language of Massachusett, and a Bible for Pennsylvania’s German congregations printed in 1743. Both were published while the printers of London, Oxford, and Cambridge held royal patents on the English Bible. From the post-Revolutionary period, the collection includes the first American edition of the English Bible (1782), the first English translation by an American (1808), and other landmarks of Bible printing in the United States. |
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40. John Wesley’s Proof Sheets |
41. The Eliot Bible
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42. The Saur Bible
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43. Aitken’s 1st
American Bible
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| 44. First
Illustrated American Bible
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45. First
American Bible Translation
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46. Bible For
American Children
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47. First
American New Testament in Greek
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