Highlights of the Exhibition
The Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Bible Collection
at
Bridwell
Library
September 8 - December 12, 2009
Click on the images for enlargements and descriptions
[Biblia latina]. Illuminated manuscript on vellum. [Paris, c. 1250].
[New Testament. Middle English, Wycliffite version].
Illuminated manuscript on vellum. [England, c. 1400–25].
[Missale. Use of Sarum]. Illuminated manuscript on vellum. [England, c.1418].
Biblia latina. Single leaf printed on vellum. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg, 1454-55].
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Biblia latina. [Strasbourg: Johann Mentelin and/or Adolf Rusch, c.1473].
Biblia latina. Basel: Bernhard Richel, [not after 1474].
Biblia latina cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra. Vol. 2 of 4.
Venice: [Johann Herbort for] Johann von Köln, Nicholas Jenson, and Associates, 31 July 1481.
[Old Testament. Dutch]. Vetus Testamentum. 2 vols.
Delft: Jacob Jacobszoen van der Meer and Mauricius Yemantszoen, 10 January 1477.
Biblia latina. Basel: Johann Froben, 27 October 1495.
Sinte Bernardus Souter tot Onser Liever Vrouwen Maria. Antwerp: Gerard Leeu, 8 October 1491.
Libri Veteris ac Novi Testamenti multiplici lingua impressi. 6 vols. Edited by Diego Lopez de Zuńiga,
et al.
Alcalá de Henares: Arnaldo Guillén de Brocar, 1514–17 [published 1521].
Novum Testamentvm omne multo quam antehac diligentius ab Erasmo Roterodamo recognitum, emendatum ac translatum.
Edited, translated, and annotated by Desiderius Erasmus. Basel: Johannes Froben, 1519.
Das Allte Testament deutsch. Translated by Martin Luther.
Wittenberg: [Melchior Lotther for Lucas Cranach and Christian Döring], 1523-24.
Biblia, das ist, die gantze Heilige Schrifft Deudsch.
Translated by Martin Luther. Wittenberg: Hans Lufft, 1535.
The Newe Testament yet Once Agayne Corrected by Willyam Tindale. [Antwerp?: s.n.], 1536.
William Tyndale (c. 1494–1536). The Parable of the Wycked Mammon Taken Out of the .xvi. Ca. of Luke.
"Malborowe: Hans Lufft, 1528" [London: s.n., 1537?].
First Edition of the Bible in English.
Biblia. The Bible that is, the Holy Scripture of the Olde and New Testament.
Translated by Miles Coverdale. [Marburg: Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], 1535.
The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament.
Translated by William Whittingham,
et al. Geneva: Rouland Hall, 1560.
The Holie. Bible. Conteynyng the Olde Testament and the Newe.
Edited by Archbishop Matthew Parker,
et al. [London: Richard Jugge, 1568].
a) The New Testament of Jesus Christ. Rheims: John Fogny, 1582.
b) The Holie Bible Faithfully Translated into English out of the Authentical Latin. 2 vols. Douay: Laurence Kellam, 1609-10.
The Holy Bible Conteyning the Old Testament and the New. Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues:
& with the Former Translations Diligently Compared
and Revised by His Majesties Special Comandement.
London: Robert Barker, 1611.
[Bible. Massachuset]. Mamusse wunneetupanatamwe up-biblum God
naneeswe nukkone testament kah wonk wusku testament. Translated by John Eliot.
Cambridge, [Mass.]: Samuel Green, 1685.
Biblia das ist: Die Heilige Schrift. Germantown: Christoph Saur, 1743.
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. Philadelphia: Robert Aitken, 1782.
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New. Oxford: John Baskett, 1717.
a) John Wesley (1703–1791). Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament. Corrected proof sheets. [London: William Bowyer, 1755].
b) John Wesley (1703–1791). Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament. London: William Bowyer, 1755.
The English Bible Containing the Old Testament & the New. 5 vols. London: Doves Press, 1903-05.