Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851

NOTES

THE BREECHES, OR GENEVA BIBLE

POEMS DISCOVERED AMONG THE PAPERS OF SIR KENELM DIGBY

WORKS OF CAMOENS

FOLK LORE

ELIZABETH WALKER.—SHAKSPEARE

OLD ENGLISH ACTORS AND MUSICIANS IN GERMANY

MINOR NOTES

QUERIES

DOUSA'S POEM ON SIDNEY.—OLD DUTCH SONG-BOOK

MINOR QUERIES

REPLIES

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL QUERIES BY R.G

THE FROZEN HORN

DOMINICALS

MEDAL STRUCK BY CHARLES XII.—RUDBECK'S ATLANTICA

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES

MISCELLANEOUS

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS

Отрывок из книги

Of this, the most popular edition of the Scriptures in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, we meet continually with erroneous opinions of its rarity, and also of its value, which the following brief statement may tend in a degree to correct.

The translation was undertaken by certain reformers who fled to Geneva during the reign of Queen Mary; and is attributed to W. Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Miles Coverdale, Thomas Sampson, Christopher Goodman, Thomas Cole, John Knox, John Bodleigh, and John Pullain; but Mr. Anderson, in his History of the English Bible, says that the translators were Whittingham, Gilby, and Sampson: and from the facts stated, he is, no doubt, correct.

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The first edition printed in London is a small folio. Imprinted by Christopher Barker, 1576.

The first edition of the Scriptures printed in Scotland is the Geneva version, folio, began 1576, by Thomas Bassandyne; and finished in 1579 by Alexander Arbuthnot.

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