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Title |
The Bible: that is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Old and New Testament. Translated according to the Ebrewe and Greeke and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations upon all hard places, and other things of great importance
With: The whole booke of Psalmes / collected into English meeter by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others ; conferred with the Hebrew ; with apt notes to sing them withall ; set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together... |
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Detail Depicted |
Binding - Decoration - Tooled - Gilt (Front cover- top foredge corner)
Binding - Materials - Leather (Front cover - top foredge corner) |
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Uniform Title |
Bible. English. Geneva. 1603
Whole book of psalms |
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Creator/Author |
Bible :
[Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605]
[Tomson, Laurence, 1539-1608]
[Junius, Franciscus, 1545-1602 ]
Booke: [Sternhold, Thomas, d. 1549] |
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Publisher |
Bible: Don by Robert Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie [Barker, Robert, d. 1645]
Booke: Imprinted by Iohn Windet for the Company of Stationers. |
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Place of Publication |
Bible: Imprinted at London
Booke: London
[England -- London] |
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Date of Publication |
Bible: Anno 1603
Booke: 1604 |
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Subjects (LCSH) |
Bible. English.
Bible. O.T. Psalms -- Paraphrases, English |
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Genre Heading |
Religious works<br>Bibless |
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Bibliographic Elements |
Bible: [3], 190, 197, 121, [11] leaves : ill., maps ; 24 cm (4to)
Booke: [10], 93 [i.e. 91], [11] p. : music ; 22 cm (4to) |
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Printing Method |
Letterpress on handmade laid paper |
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Printer |
Bible: Don by Robert Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie [Barker, Robert, d. 1645]
Booke: Imprinted by Iohn Windet for the Company of Stationers. |
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Image Production Process |
Woodcuts |
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Binding |
This is a historically significant binding that should be handled as little as possible.
Bound in contemporary full leather binding using large stepped corner pieces with a hatched background used by the binder John Bateman and his shop. No headbands. Rebacked, with new endsheets added. The metal corner pieces and clasps are missing .
An attempt was made to make this binding into a cuir-cisele, a method of decoration in which the design is cut into dampened leather instead of being tooled or blocked .
Edges trimmed and gauffered .
Bateman, the binder, served a 12-year apprenticeship and was declared free in 1580. He seems to have run a large bindery in London and is recorded as taking a number of apprentices between 1584 and 1605. He is probably responsible for binding books for James I and Henry Prince of Wales .
Tools used by Bateman were used on earlier bindings made by the Dudley binder, so named because he bound books for Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester until about 1560. The MacDurnan binder also used the same tools, and these two binders may in fact be the same shop. It appears that Bateman acquired the Dudley/MacDurnan binder's tools and may have been an apprentice in that shop. |
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General Notes |
Signatures :
Bible: [par.]4 A-Z[superscript 8] &[superscript 6] 2A-2Z[superscript 8] 2&[superscript 8] 2*[superscript 4] 3A-3Q[superscript 8] 3R[superscript 4] [$4 (2*3,4, 3R4) signed; missigning B3 as E3, &4 as 4, Y4 as V4, 2M4 as 2N4]; 521 leaves, ff. [4] 1-190, [superscript 2][1-2] 3-87 [88] 89-128 130-173 [174] 175-197 [=196], [superscript 3][1-2] 3-121, [15] [misnumbering 6 as 7, 87 as 78, 96 as 95, 112 as 117, 138 as 130, 144 as 143, 179 as 279, [superscript 2]14 as 15, 50 as 5, 70 as 10, 83 as 93, 85 as 25, 96 as 68, 105 as 103, 127 as 117, 136 as 137, 176 as 161, 178-9 as 158-9, 186 as 188, 191 as 140, 192 as 194, 197 as 187, [superscript 3]61 as 62, 62 as 67, 100 as 10, 102 as 107]. UW copy lacking [par.]2, 3A1 .
Whole Booke of Psalmes: A-G[superscript 8] [$4 signed]; 56 leaves, pp.[10] 1-91 [11] [misnumbering 7 as 15, 22 as 30, 67 as 73, 76 as 77, 77 as 76, 91 as 93]. UW copy lacking leaf G8. Leaf G7 (pp. [8]-[9]) torn and lacking text .
In UW copy, last set of numbering is pagination instead of foliation, reflecting binding of two books together.
Bound with: Whole book of psalms. The whole booke of Psalmes / collected into English meeter by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others ; conferred with the Hebrew ; with apt notes to sing them withall ; set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together... London : Imprinted by Iohn Windet for the Company of Stationers, 1604 .
Text in two columns, with marginal bibliographical notes and catchwords .
Boundary lines and rulings by hand in ink .
Woodcut title page, initials, head- and tailpieces, and map .
Bible includes Apocrypha .
Includes index of names and concordance .
New Testament has special t.p. and separate pagination. N.T. is Tomson's revision of Bèze's translation with Junius' Revelation--Cf. NUC pre-1956 imprints .
On the title page of The Bible, the phrase Printer to the Queenes...Maiestie is found, but ...Kings...Maiestie is found on the colophon. Verso of t.p. blank .
The woodcut border to the title page is a frame having twenty-four small compartments, showing on the left - the tents of the twelve tribes; on the right - figures of the twelve Apostles; the inner part exhibits the four Evangelists, with the symbols of the Dove and the Agnus Dei, and a lamp, and two open books inscribed Verbum Dej Manet in Aeternum; the letterpress of the title is enclosed within a heart-shaped frame in the center. At the base of the cut is the phrase 'Cum priuilegio' with crowned E and R on either side. Cf. Pollard & Redgrave, Short Title Catalog of English Books 1475-1640. |
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Previous Owners |
Bookplate on front pastedown: John W. Ballantyne
Autograph of John (?)iston on t.p. verso. |
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References |
Herbert, A.S. Engl. Bible, 274
STC (2nd ed.) 2190 |
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Language |
English |
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Digital Collection |
Historical Book Arts Collection |
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Repository |
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
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Repository Collection |
Special Collections |
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Call Number |
SpecColl Rare BS170 1603 |
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Digital Reproduction Information |
Scanned in RGB color using an Olympus C-2000 Zoom digital camera and saved in.jpg format and resized to768x600 ppi. 2003. |
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Content |
The Geneva version is often referred to as the Breeches Bible because of the substitution of the word 'breeches' for 'apron' in Gen. 3:7 .
The Geneva Bible was published at Geneva in 1560. The Old Testament was a revision of the Great Bible; the New Testament a revision of one published in 1557. Cf. Simms, Bible in America .
For the first time in English Scriptures, the Bible had numbered verse divisions, italics for words not found in the originals, and more legible print in Roman type instead of the traditional "Black Letter." Cf. The Geneva Bible .
This Breeches Bible includes the Apocryphia and The Whole Booke of Psalmes with accompanying musical notes .
Bateman, the binder, served a 12-year apprenticeship and was declared free in 1580. He seems to have run a large bindery in London and is recorded as taking a number of apprentices between 1584 and 1605. He is probably responsible for binding books for James I and Henry Prince of Wales .
Tools used by Bateman were used on earlier bindings made by the Dudley binder, so named because he bound books for Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester until about 1560. The MacDurnan binder also used the same tools, and these two binders may in fact be the same shop. It appears that Bateman acquired the Dudley/MacDurnan binder's tools and may have been an apprentice in that shop. |
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Restrictions |
Some of our items are fragile and may require an appointment for use. Please contact Special Collections. |
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Object Type |
image |
Historical Book Arts
