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The Giant Bible of Mainz

Giant Bible of Mainz

Biblia latina (Bible in Latin), probably Mainz, 1452–1453. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress

 

The Gutenberg Bible

Gutenberg Bible

Biblia latina (Bible in Latin). Mainz: Johann Gutenberg, 1455. Otto Vollbehr Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress

 

Other Bibles

Manuscript Bible from England

Biblia latina (Bible in Latin).  England, thirteenth century.  Manuscript on vellum.  Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress

Call number: Rosenwald #2

 

Manuscript Bible from France

Biblia latina (Bible in Latin).  France, thirteenth century.  Manuscript on vellum.  Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress

Call number: Rosenwald #3

 

Book of Hours from Flanders

Horae Beatae Mariae (Book of Hours).  Germany, last quarter of the fifteenth century.    Manuscript on vellum.  Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress

Call number: Rosenwald #9

 

Book of Hours from France

Horae Beatae Mariae Virginia ad usum Romanum (Book of  Hours).  France, 1524.  Manuscript on vellum.  Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress

Call number: Rosenwald #14

 

The Nekcsei-Lipócz Bible from Hungary

Biblia latina (Bible in Latin).  Hungary, ca. 1335–1340.  Manuscript on vellum.  Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress

Call number: MEDMS6

 

Bible from Bohemia

Biblia latina (Bible in Latin).  Bohemia, fifteenth century.  Parchment.  Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress

Call number: MEDMS7

 

Psalter from Germany

Psalter.  Southern Germany, first half of the thirteenth century.  Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress

Call number: MEDMS9

 

The Jenson Bible

Biblia Sacre (Holy Bible). Venice: Nicolas Jenson, 1479.  Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress

Call number: Rosenwald #220

 

The Complutensian Polyglot Bible

Biblia polygotta (Polyglot Bible).  Alcalá de Henares, Spain: Arnaldi Guillelmi de Brocario, 1514–1517.  Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress

Call number: BS51 1514

 

The Great Bible or Cranmer’s Bible

The Bible in Englyshe.  London: Richard Grafton and Edward Whitechurch, 1540.  Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress

Call number: BS160 1540

 

The Geneva Bible

The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament.  Geneva, 1560.  Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress

Call number: BS170 1560

 

The King James Bible

The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New.  London: Robert Barker, 1611.  Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress

Call number: BS185 1611

 

The Eliot Indian Bible: First Bible Printed in America

The Holy Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New. Translated into the Indian Language.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson, 1663.  Bible Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress

Call number: BS345 A2E4 1663

 

The First English Language Bible Published in North America

The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly translated out of the Original Tongues. . . .   Philadelphia: Robert Aitken, 1782.  Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress

Call number: BS185 1782 .P5

 

A Hieroglyphic Bible for Children

A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible, or, Select Passages in the Old and New Testaments, Represented with Emblematical Figures, for the Amusement of Youth.  Worcester, Massachusetts: Isiah Thomas, 1788.   American Imprint Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress

Call number: BS560 1788

 

Twentieth-Century Bible with Illustrations by Eric Gill

The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ According to the Authorized Version of King James I.  Decorations by Eric Gill.  Waltham Saint Lawrence, England: Golden Cockerel Press, 1931.  Press Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division Library of Congress
Call number: BS 2553 .G5

 

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