{"id":57,"date":"2012-05-17T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newcollegelibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2012-05-17T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T15:35:00","slug":"early-bibles-at-new-college-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2012\/05\/17\/early-bibles-at-new-college-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Bibles at New College Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

New College Library has rich and distinct Bible collections. This\u00a0 Geneva Bible,\u00a0printed in 1599\u00a0with an illustrated frontispiece is\u00a0just one\u00a0example.\u00a0 Called a Geneva Bible because it was produced by a group of Protestant scholars who fled to Geneva during the time of Queen Mary I of England (1553 \u2013 1558), it was innovative in being a\u00a0 mass-produced Bible which came with a variety of scriptural study guides and aids.<\/p>\n

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Bible, Book of Common Prayer and Psalter. London, 1599. New College Library B.r.438\/1<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0This 1599 edition also inclues the new “Junius” version of the Book of Revelation, in which the notes were translated from a new Latin commentary by\u00a0Fransiscus Junius\u00a0on Revelation. It was the Bible used by John Knox and Oliver Cromwell, making it hugely important to the study of sixteenth and seventeenth century Britain.<\/p>\n

University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Divinity students on programmes such as the\u00a0Masters degree in\u00a0\u00a0Theology in History<\/a>\u00a0have the opportunity to handle rare books like this as part of their studies.<\/p>\n

\u00a0This Bible is newly catalogued online as part of the Funk Cataloguing Projects<\/a> at New College Library, which has enabled the cataloguing of\u00a0631 early Bibles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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