Holy Bible with additional New Testament.
The Bible: That Is, The Holy Scriptures Conteined in the Olde and New Testament: Translated According to the Ebrew and Greeke …… The New Testament of Our Lord …. Englished by L. Tomson.
The Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1595, Geneva or ‘Breeches’ bible, quarto in eights, [3], 190, 127, 129-197; 116, 11 leaves, lacking
A1 before title page, bound without blank leaves before Apocrypha and NT. Maps and other illustrations present within text, [Herbert 226, (194 for collation)].
Title pages present for Old and New Testaments. Some staining and age tanning, occasional marginal notes, marginal wear, tear to inside corner of second leaf 127 (2Q7) with loss, hole in leaves 29 and 30 with some loss of text, some marginal worm tracks.
Followed by a second New Testament without title page, comprising three preliminary leaves (*ii-iv), leaves numbered 441-554, (leaf 441 is the first page of St Matthew’s Gospel, with signature 3K1, no colophon at end), Worm track to head of leaves in first half of this NT, entering text in places;
Preceded by
Common Prayer, The Booke of Common Prayer, with the Psalter or Psalmes of David, of that
Translation which is appointed to be used in Churches.
The Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1595, quarto in eights, comprising title and seven calendar
pages (heavily worn and restored), then leaves A-E8;
and
R.F.H., Two Right Profitable and fruitfull Concordances, or large and ample Tables Alphabeticall …
The Deputies of Christopher Barker, no date, leaves A-K8, L2, some marginal annotation;
And followed by
Psalms, The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Collected into English meetre, by Thomas Sternhold, John
Hopkins, and others …
Printed by John Windet for the Assignes of Richard Day, 1594, quarto in eights, [10], 97, [98-110]
pages, worming and wear to final leaves.
Two pages of manuscript laid down on front pastedown and fly leaf, manuscript on two worn
blank leaves at end of book, contemporary calf binding with brass lozenges and bossed corners,
clasp plates without clasps, sympathetically restored or re-bound, retaining original leather, new
endpapers. Later spine label, old worm holes, splits/wear to original leather over new calf.