or "Breeches" Bible, in two volumes, with the Scottish Metrical Psalter (c.1599 edition)

by THE GENEVA BIBLE

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THE GENEVA BIBLE, in two volumes, with the Scottish Metrical Psalter and a long history of incredible British provenance. The Bible: That is, The Holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and New Testament. [Geneva Bible]. With: The Psalms of David, In Meeter. Newly translated, and diligently compared with the original text, and former translations: More plain, smooth, and agreeable to the Text, then any heretofore. Allowed by the authority of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, and appointed to be sung in Congregations and Families. [London: Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1599]. With: Edinburgh: Printed by Gideon Lithgow, 1651. The Geneva Bible, first published in 1560, was the most widely read English Bible of the 16th and 17th centuries, predating the King James Version by 51 years. This bible was the preferred bible of Shakespeare, and a copy was taken over with the pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower. The Geneva bible's extensive marginal notes, with their distinctly Calvinist and Puritan interpretations, made it immensely popular among Reformed congregations, particularly in Scotland, where it remained preferred long after the 1611 King James translation appeared. This copy bears the nominal date of 1599 on both of its title pages, though it has been noted that "the nominal date 1599 is probably untrue in almost every case." (Herbert, 1968). It is generally understood that the vast majority of Geneva Bibles dated 1599 are in fact later Amsterdam or Dordrecht co

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