The Bible: . that is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Old and New Testament. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance.
Theodore de Beze (1519-1605)
Category
Books
Date
1601
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3052314.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],190,187[i.e.197],116,22 leaves . ill.. (woodcut), maps . 4to in 8s.. Imperfect: wanting all after end of New Testament [i.e. sigs. 2A-2C4 2[par.]8 2[par]4]. Bound with an imperfect copy of the Book of common prayer ([London, 1597?]; "Tvvo right profitable and fruitfull concordances" (London, 1602); and "The vvhole Booke of Psalmes" (London, 1601). Not identified in 1768 catalogue.. Provenance: Bookplate: George Harry Grey (1737-1819) after 1768; anonymous armorial variant 2. Franks 12841. manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "The gift of my grandson George Chetwode April 16th 1811. Stamford & Warrington" [i.e. George Harry Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford (1737-1819)].. Binding: Early nineteenth-century diced calf binding; gilt fillet and blind roll pattern border; gilt roll patterns on board edges and turn-ins; gold-tooled spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Theodore de Beze (1519-1605) Camerarius, Joachim Anthony Gilby (1510-1585) Pierre Loyseleur (c.1530-1590) Thomas Sampson Laurence Tomson (1539-1608) William Whittingham (c.1524 - 1579)