- Description:
[4], 190, 127, 121, [11] leaves, [10] , 93, [11] p. : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm (4to in 8s)
- Variant Title:
North Carolina Collection copy known as: Durant Bible
- Published:
Imprinted at London : By the Deputies of Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Majestie., 1599. [i.e. Amsterdam : J.F. Stam, after 1640?]
- Language:
English
- Cited In:
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 2178
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 2499.5
English short title catalogue, S101813
Herbert, A.S. Historical catalogue of printed editions of the English Bible, 1525-1961, 254
- Notes:
Geneva version, also called the "Breeches" Bible (from Gen. iii, 7).
"FEARE YEE NOT STAND STILL, AND//behold the salvation of the Lord, which hee will//shew to you this day. Exod.14.13" and "THE LORD SHALL FIGHT FOR YOU.//Therefore hold you your peace. Exod.14.14"--Scripture citations above and below title vignette (cut of the crossing of the Red sea).
Added title-page, engraved within heart shaped center enclosed by block border with symbols of the twelve tribes in order of age, the twelve apostles and an evangelist at each corner of the title page, Matthew and Mark above, separated by a dove, and Luke and John below, separated by a lamb.
Esther I.1: seven//and twenty provinces.) The divisional title of the second part has spellings: Proverbes, Jeremiah, Joel and Jonah.
N.T. has special title-page, engraved as above with title: The New Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ, Translated out of Greeke by Theod. Beza: ; With briefe Summaries and expositions upon the hard places by the said Authour, Ioac. Camer. and P. Loseler. Villerius. ; Engelished by L. Tomson. ; Together with the Annotations of Fr. Iunius upon the Revelation of S. John.
"THE ORDER OF TIME, //whereunto the Contents of this//booke are to be referred" (leaf 3O6 verso) has 'watched' and 'Jewes' in first line.
Signatures: [paragraph]⁴ A-Z⁸ &⁶ 2A-2R⁸ 2Q⁸(-2Q8) 3A-3Q⁸ 3R⁴; ²A-G⁸ [$4 (-2A1, 3A1, 3R4, ²G4) signed]
Text in framed columns.
Includes names of persons index.
Includes: The Booke of Psalmes / collected into English meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, Iohn Hopkins, and others ..., as issued--with a divisional title-page only. Cf. STC 2499.5.
The section containing the Apocrypha is omitted, though it is listed in the contents.
- Local Notes:
NCC copy 1. Thought to be the Bible of George Durant; genealogical information on the Durant and Reed families noted in manuscript hands throughtout the volume. Documentary material on this Bible and the Durant and Reed families, including transcription of genealogical information from the Bible, in a portfolio with the call number: VC929.2 D951b documentation. Binding. Bound in full calf with blind stamping on upper and lower cover to form a rectangle within a rectangle. Floral tools blind stamped at outer box corners. Re-sewn into binding. Imperfect copy. Wanting all before leaf A4. Also wanting leaves A7,8, leaf &8, leaf 2L5, and leaves ²G3-8. The title page has been replaced with a photocopy of the title page from the Duke University copy of same Bible.
- OCLC Number:
25342281
