THE

ANTIQUE BIBLE

COLLECTION

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A truly unique and wonderful collection of more than 60 rare, antique Bible’s and associated books and manuscripts compiled together for the first time on 3 DVD’s!

Included in this astonishing collection are some of the world’s earliest and most important translations of the Holy Scriptures: The Coverdale Bible (1535) was the first modern English translation of the Bible, The Great Bible (1539) was the first authorized version of the Bible in English, authorized by King Henry VIII for use in the Church of England, The Geneva Bible (1560) is one of the most significant translations of the Bible into English. Amongst others examples included are Taverner’s Bible (1539), The Matthew Bible (1537), The Douay-Rheims Bible (1635), The Bishop's Bible (1568) and The Seville Bible (ca. 900 - 950).

This stunning collection of rare literature also includes numerous works on the bible, such as all 4 volumes of William Smith’s ‘Dictionary of The Bible’, the complete ‘Encyclopaedia Biblica’ by Cheyne & Black, ‘The English hexapla’, and ‘The Hexaplar Psalter’, and much more. Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable library of reference material. Overall, this is an absolute must for anyone with an interest in Christianity, the Bible, its history and creation. The full list of titles included speaks for itself….

This superb compilation of 62 rare, antique books and manuscripts on 3 DVD data discs provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been scanned and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop or computer, or transfer to tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages.

This is without doubt the most extensive collection of its kind - compiled over time by rare-book-collections, and only available here!

Full List of Bibles & Books Included is as Follows:

Disc 1:

1610 A.D. Douay Old Testament, 1582 A.D. Rheims New Testament (Printed 1635 A.D.)

A complete Hebrew-English pocket-dictionary to the Old Testament (1901)

A new and complete pronouncing Bible dictionary, containing more Scriptural words than any other work of the kind (1873)

A study of Tindale's Genesis compared with the Genesis of Coverdale and of the authorized version - E. W. Cleaveland (1911)

Bible - N.T. Greek text with critical apparatus - E. Nestle (1904)

Bibliorum Sacrorum Concordantiae (1868)

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Das Newe Testament Deutzsch - Martin Luther (1522)

Dictionary of the Bible Vols. 1 - 4 - W. Smith (1871)

Douay Rheims Bible Original (1635)

Editions of the Bible and parts thereof in English from the year MDV to MDCCCL - with an appendix containing specimens of translations, and bibliographical descriptions - H. Cotton (1852)

Encyclopaedia Biblica - a critical dictionary of the literary, political, and religious history, the archaeology, geography, and natural history of the Bible Vols. 1 - 4 - T. K. Cheyne (1899)

Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments with the Apocryphal books - Vols. 1 – 4 - J. Wycliffe (1850)

Old Bibles; an account of the early versions of the English Bible - J. R. Dore (1888)

The Bible by Coverdale, MDXXXV. Remarks on the titles; the year of publication; the preliminary, the water marks, etc., with fac-similes - F. Fry (1867)

The Bishop's Bible (1568)

The Coverdale Bible (revised edition of 1553)

Disc 2:

The emphatic diaglott containing the original Greek text of what is commonly styled the New Testament, with an interlineary word for word English translation (1864)

The emphatic New Testament, according to the Authorized version - J. Taylor (1854)

The English hexapla - exhibiting the six important English translations of the New Testament Scriptures - J. Scholz (1841)

The Geneva Bible (1560)

The Geneva Bible (1606)

The Geneva, or 'Breeches' Bible (1615)

The Gothic and Anglo-Saxon gospels in parallel columns with the versions of Wycliffe and Tyndale (1888)

The Great Bible (1540)

The hexaplar Psalter - being the book of Psalms in six English versions - W. A. Wright (1911)

The Holy Bible - a facsimile in a reduced size of the Authorized version published in the year 1611 - A. W. Pollard (1911)

The Holy Bible - containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out of the original tongues, with a complete concordance, embracing every passage of scripture in the largest editions (1881)

The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments, the text conformable to that of the edition of 1611, commonly known as the Authorized or King James' version - F. N. Peloubet (1914)

The Holy Bible Douay-Rheims Translation Challoner Revision, 1749-1752 - New Testament

The Holy Bible Douay-Rheims Translation Challoner Revision, 1749-1752 - Old Testament Part 1

The Holy Bible Douay-Rheims Translation Challoner Revision, 1749-1752 - Old Testament Part 2

The illuminated Bible - containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out the original tongues, also, the Apocrypha - J. A. Adams (1846)

The interlinear literal translation of the Greek New Testament (1894)

The Matthew Bible (1537)

The new illuminated Holy Bible self-pronouncing with marginal references and concordance (1897)

The New Testament in English according to the version by John Wycliffe, about A.D. 1380, and revised by John Purvey, about A.D. 1388 (1879)

The Newe Testament - both Latine and Englyshe ech correspondent to the other after the vulgare texte - M. Coverdale (1538)

The Psalter of the Great Bible of 1539 - a landmark in English literature - J. Earle (1894)

The Taverner Bible (1539)

Disc 3:

A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible (1788)

Bible - New Testament (without Gospels) (ca. 1050 - 1499)

Bible of the Ratisbon Dominican Order (ca. 1450)

Codex Gigas - The Devil's Bible (1200 - 1230)

Hebrew Bible (1280)

Hebrew Bible (ca. 1300)

History Bible (ca. 1425 - 1450)

Koberger Bible (1483)

Partial Hebrew Bible (ca. 1280)

Paupers' Bible (1414)

The Cervera Bible (ca. 1300)

The Furtmeyr Bible (ca. 1465 - 1499)

The Seville Bible (ca. 900 - 950)

An absolute must for anyone with an interest in the history of Christianity and in particular The Bible – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price!

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All of the files are hi-resolution scans presented in pdf format, easy to read on your computer, laptop, tablet, smartphone, or any modern Kindle / ebook reader that can read pdf files. All files can be printed or transferred between devices.

For some devices you may need to convert the pdf files. A free program called Calibre can be used to do this and can be included on the DVD if requested.

Please note that these are data DVD discs that will contain all of the books, documents and material listed in this auction. They will work in a laptop or computer (including MAC) but will NOT work on a normal DVD player, X-Box or audio CD player.

** Main photo and photos of physical books are for illustration purposes only – other photos are example pages from the books included on the discs **

Please check our other items for lots more rare specialist book collections including:

‘The Lost, Secret & Forbidden Books of The Bible’

‘The Ancient & Medieval Gospels Collection’

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