[Eliot Indian Bible]: Eliot, John, translator:

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[LEAF FROM THE ELIOT INDIAN BIBLE, FIRST EDITION, FROM THE GOSPEL OF LUKE (LEAF H3; CHAPTERS III - V)]. A leaf from the first edition of the Eliot Indian Bible, Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblium God..., published in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1663. This was the first Bible printed in North America and the first Bible in an American Indian language. The printing of this Bible was a monumental undertaking, and it took more than two and a half years to set the type and print the work.This leaf contains verses twenty-six through thirty-eight of chapter III, all of chapter IIII (i.e. IV, verses one through forty-four), and verses one through fifteen of chapter V of the Gospel of Luke. A keen artifact from the "first Bible printed in the New World, and the first example in history of the translation and printing of the entire Bible in a new language (Massachuset) as a means of evangelism" - Pilling.

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