{"id":1701,"date":"2013-11-14T09:40:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T09:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2013-11-14T09:46:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T09:46:59","slug":"in-the-beginning-was-the-word-bibles-at-new-college-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2013\/11\/14\/in-the-beginning-was-the-word-bibles-at-new-college-library\/","title":{"rendered":"In the beginning was the word : Bibles at New College Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in 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Bible 1540\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/04\/kjb1599.jpg'><img width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/04\/kjb1599-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1441\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1441'>\n\t\t\t\tGeneva Bible, 1599\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/11\/0018390c.jpg'><img width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/11\/0018390c-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1714\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1714'>\n\t\t\t\tGeneva Bible, 1583\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/11\/KJB1611.jpg'><img width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/11\/KJB1611-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1710\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1710'>\n\t\t\t\tKing James Bible, 1611\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Yesterday we\u00a0were pleased to welcome staff and students on exchange from Dartmouth College, USA to a classroom session viewing items from New College Library&#8217;s historic Bibles collection. Examples included a 1478\u00a0early Bible Latin\u00a0manuscript version\u00a0from our Incunabula Collection and our very earliest printed Bible, a Greek New Testament printed in Strassburg in 1524. The English Reformation was well represented by a Cranmer&#8217;s Bible (1541), a Matthew&#8217;s Bible (1549), a Bishop&#8217;s Bible (1585), \u00a0a 1599 Geneva Bible and a 1611 King James version.<\/p>\n<p>Our 1579\u00a0Bassandyne Bible has particular Scottish significance. Bassandyne was a Scotsman,\u00a0who\u00a0lived in Edinburgh in a house beside John Knox&#8217;s. He printed the first Bible published in Scotland, a Geneva version which became the regular pulpit Bible throughout Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0rich diversity of Bibles at New College Library was also shown by the\u00a0<b> <\/b><b><i>Polyglot Bible<\/i><\/b><b> \u2013 The Antwerp (1569), which contains the Bible text in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Syriac. This was <\/b>produced under the patronage of Philip II of Spain, at the suggestion of the famous printer, Christopher Plantin.\u00a0 Printed in Antwerp, it was sent to Spain by sea\u00a0 but the ship was wrecked and most of the volumes perished with it, only some 200 being rescued. Of these\u00a0New College\u00a0Library possesses one complete copy in excellent condition. The Polyglot Bible relied on the Bomberg Bible for its Hebrew text, which we were also able to have on display. New College Library holds the 1545 or second edition of the Bomberg Bible in its Dalman Christie Collection, which was recently catalogued as part of the <a title=\"Funk Projects at New College Library\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/schools-departments\/information-services\/services\/library-museum-gallery\/finding-resources\/subject-guides\/divinity\/news\" target=\"_blank\">Funk Projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we\u00a0were pleased to welcome staff and students on exchange from Dartmouth College, USA to a classroom session viewing items from New College Library&#8217;s historic Bibles collection. 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