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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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MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE BIBLES: The Prothro Collection consists of nearly 500 Bibles from eight centuries, beginning with a handsomely illuminated manuscript of St. Jerome’s Latin Bible, written at Paris c. 1250, and an important manuscript of John Wycliffe’s late fourteenth-century translation of the New Testament into Middle English. The fifteenth-century transformation of the Bible, and of reading in general, is represented by a single leaf from Gutenberg’s first printed Bible (c. 1455) and ten other books printed with moveable type before 1500. |
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1. Illuminated
Paris Vulgate
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2. Wycliffite New Testament
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3. Sarum Missal
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4. Gutenberg Bible Fragment
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5. Incunable Bible
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| 6. "Ready to Use" Bible |
7. Bible with Table of Contents |
8. Early Quarto Bible
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9. "Poor Man's Bible"
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10. Vulgate with
Woodcuts
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| 11. Vulgate with
Commentary
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12. First
Dutch Old Testament
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13. Dutch Prayerbook
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14. Printed Book of Hours
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