The Bible in English, by John Cawood. Imperfect at the
beginning and the end.
The Holy Bible, printed by Robert Barker, and the Assignees of
John Bill, London, 1639, folio, ruled with red lines, and bound
in crimson velvet.
The Bible in English, printed at London in 1684.
The Bible, printed by Baskett, at Oxford in 1715, folio, bound
in calf, and two other impressions of the sacred volume,
published at the same place in 1717 and 1739.
The Bible, printed by Baskerville, at Cambridge, in 1763,
folio, bound in calf, gilt.
The Bible, edited by Bishop Wilson, and printed at Bath in
1785, in three volumes, 4to.
The Holy Bible, edited by D’Oyly and Mant, in three volumes,
4to.
Merely observing that these English versions of the Holy Scriptures may
safely be left to speak for themselves.
It was with feelings of no ordinary gratification that I found upon the
shelves of this Library the first Polyglott Bible, being that commonly
known as the Complutensian, published in Spain under the auspices of
Cardinal Ximenes in 1517. The present copy is very fine and sound,
measuring fourteen inches and a quarter by ten inches. It is bound in six
volumes folio, in old mottled calf, apparently of foreign extraction.
Few of our ecclesiastical foundations are endowed with a copy of this
most important work, though nearly all of them possess the Polyglott of
Walton, which in the present instance stands beside its elder brother.
Here we have also the Biblia Hebraica, Hutteri, Hamburgi, 1588, folio;
the Biblia Hebraica Montani, 1609, folio; the Biblia Hebraica, Forsteri,
Oxonii, 1750, in two vols. 4to.; and the Biblia Hebraica, Kennicottii,
Oxonii, 1776, in two vols. folio; also the Biblia Latina cum pleno
apparatu, &c. “Impressum Lugduni per magistrum Jacobum Sacon X die
Novem. 1509,” folio, in double columns of Gothic character. It has a
large wood-cut on the first leaf, and the title in red; with the device
of the printer at the end, followed by the “Interpretationes Nominum
Hebræaorum.” This volume is bound in calf.
The Vet. Test. LXX, curâ Grabe. Oxonii, 1707, folio.
The Biblia LXX, apud Holmes et Parsons. Oxonii, 1798, et seq.
in six vols. folio. And
The Codex Bezæ, edited by Kipling, in two vols. folio, bound in
calf.