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Pirages
McMinnville, Oregon
Nov. '02
$95.00

The holie Bible (Bishops' version)
London: Richard Jugge, 1568. f^0
Copy: HEHL Folgen
Ref: Herbert 125 S.T.C. 2099

See
#279
#678

The Proverbs of Solamon 1x. O.T.
26:9 --> 28:22 # (iiij)

Black letter. The text is divided into 5 parts.

The Bishop's Bible generally represents a revision
of the Great Bible. Parker had appealed to Queen
Elizabeth for authorization which, for some
unknown reason did not come. Nevertheless, the
espiscopal endorsement of this version made it, in
effect the 2nd version "authorized" for church use,
after the Great Bible: A quarto ed. in 1569 corrected
many of the misprints that cropped up in the 1568
O.T. but made few corrections to the N.T. The 1572
folio had further revisions to the N.T. text + prints
the Psalms from the Great Bible in black type
in parallel columns c those of this revision in roman
type. After 1573, all ed. except for I carry the
dual Psalter. Between 1568 + 1602 the Bishop's
Bible went through 17 ed. of the complete Bible + 14
ed. of the N.T. The 1st folio ed. + the 2nd ed. of 1592
borrowed elaborate initial letters from a previous
printing of Ovids' Meta morphoses. Between 1568 +
1611, this was the version generally used in churches,
but the Geneva Bible remained the favorite for
home + personal use.