Gilby, Anthony, approximately 1510-1585
Sampson, Thomas, 1517?-1589.
Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.
Camerarius, Joachim, 1500-1574.
Tomson, Laurence, 1539-1608.
Junius, Franciscus, 1545-1602.
Barker, Robert, -1645.
Sternhold, Thomas, -1549.
Hopkins, John, -1570.

Title within illustrated border.

Includes Apocrypha.

This is a later edition of the so-called "Geneva version" (first published 1560) the earliest English Bible printed in roman type with verse divisions. Translated by William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson, and perhaps others, at Geneva.

New Testament has special t.p.: The New Testament of ovr Lord Iesus Christ / translated out of Greeke by Theod. Beza ; wherevnto are adioyned briefe summaries of doctrine vpon Euangelists aned Acts of the Apostles, together with the methode of the Epistles of the Apostles, by the said Theod. Beza ; and also short expositions on the phrases and hard places, taken out of the large annotations of the foresaid author and Ioach. Camerarius, by P. Lo. Villerius ; Englished by L. Tomson ; together with the annotations of Fr. Ivnivs vpon the Revelation of S. Iohn. Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker ... 1616.

Includes (following the N.T.): "A briefe table of the interpretation of the proper names which are chiefly found in the Old Testament ..." and "A table of the principall things that are conteined in the Bible, after the order of the alphabet."

Leaves 7, 77, 80, 82, 156, 161, 173, 183, 245, 321, 348, 351, 352, 353, 354, 384, 392, 395, 407, 411, and 420 wrongly numbered 13, 47, 90, 28, 144, 168, 137, 177, 230, 327, 345, 349, 305, 351, 352, 380, 393, 295, 404, 500, and 419; 234, 294, and 361-362 repeated in numbering; 300 omitted in numbering; 417 is numbered 471.

Leaves printed on both sides; mostly in two columns; head and tail pieces, woodcut initials; roman type.

Music in Psalmes have diamond-shaped notes.

The old Bible, published in 1610 [sic] by Robert Barker, of London, and used in ‘the meeting-house’ for over a century and a quarter, was presented, in 1695, to the congregation of English Presbyterians – Puritans – worshipping there, by Mrs. Anne Jackson, with the following inscription: - ‘This Bible was given by Mrs Jackson to the church of Christ, gathered in and about Bandon,, and soe to continue by succession.’ It is probable that Mrs. Jackson was the wife of James Jackson, who was provost in 1702. ‘Will: Millet’, whose signature is on the main title page is probably the Rev. William Millett, a graduate of the University of Glasgow, ordained at Bandon in 1715. (He is mentioned in Seamus Ó Saothraí, ‘Presbyterianism in Bandon’, Bandon Historical Journal 3 (1987), pp48-60.)

Bandon, Co. Cork, Eire: A protestant enclave founded in the reign of Elizabeth I. The Church of Kilbrogan, commonly called Christchurch, was begun in 1610 by Henry Bescher, completed in 1625 by Richard Boyle, the first Earl of Cork, and deconsecrated in 1973. It is now the West Cork Heritage Centre. The church was amongst the first erected in Ireland for protestant worship. See: Meyer, Katherine P., ‘‘The Last day I sate at this Board…’: Sermons Recorded at Youghal, Bandon, and Mallow, 1676-1688’ in Herlihy, Kevin, ed. Propagating the Word of Irish Dissent 1650-1800. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998. pp.63-73.

Bound with: The whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into English meeter by Thomas Sternhold, Iohn Hopkins and others, conferred with the Hebrewe, with apt notes to sing them all ... London : Printed by R. Badger for the Company of Stationers, 1632.

Physical description: [4], 444 [i.e. 450], 135, [7] leaves, 114, [7] pages : illustrations ; 35 cm.

Citations/References: STC (2nd ed.) 2218

Citations/References: Herbert 312

Spine title: Holy Bible

Spine title: Bible

Spine title: Holy Scriptures contained in the Old and New Testament

Spine title: Bandon Bible