Excerpt from Book-Auction Records, Vol. 12
The 1568 edition of the Scriptures came from the press of Richard Jugge, and was the work of fourteen divines, among whom were eight Bishops, under the direction of Archbishop Parker. From this fact it became known as the Bishop’s Bible. What was termed the Breeches Bible was a reprint in 1607 of the Genevan version of 1560. This comprised a thorough revision of the Bible, undertaken and carried to a most successful issue by the Genevan Refugees. The success of the work may be judged from the fact that between 1560 and 1650, 150 editions were called for. In this version the English Bible was first divided into Verses. The Authorised Version of 1611, generally termed King James’s Bible, was printed by Richard Barker. T here are two types of this issue, known as He and She, so called from the different readings of Ruthiii., 15, He went into the city and She went into the city. The College copy is one of the former. Matthew Parker’s Bible of 1572 was another production of the press of Jugge. Coverdale’s version of the Psalms had become so familiar to the eye and ear of the nation through long usage that the Bishop’s new version of the 1568 P-ible did not meet with general approval. In 1572, therefore, a compromise was attempted by the Archbishop, of printing the Old and New Psalter in parallel columns. Among other treasures in this section may be mentioned a Bible formerly belonging to the King of France and a copy of the Saerae Scripturae veteris novazque omnia, the first complete Bible to be printed in Greek. This came from the Aldine press at Venice in 1518, just two years after the death of the famous scholar and printer Aldus Manutius, who had been its projector and chief editor. The Novum Testamentum Erasmi Greece et Latine was the first published Greek Testament, and was issued at Basle by John Froben in 1516. Another rarity 18 a Latin Bible bearing upon its title-page the autograph of Bishop Hugh Latimer.
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