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Title: The Harris Free Public Libraries & Museum, Preston : catalogue of manuscripts, lithographs, and printed copies of the Scriptures, exhibited to illustrate the means by which the Bible has been transmitted, until the production in A.D. 1611 of the Authorized Version : with fifteen plates, also a brief account of the sources, and the previous history of the Bible in England
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Harris Free Public Libraries & Museum (Preston, Lancashire)
Subjects: Bible Bible
Publisher: Preston (Lancashire) : G. Toulmin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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8. This is bound up with someworks by William of Shoreham, and is therefore some-times known after him ; but it was written in the four-teenth century, in the West Midlands. 93. Psalter in Latin and Northern English ; facsimile page,showing Psalm cxiv, 3, cxv, 3. The version was madeby Richard RoUe of Yorkshire, and became widely spreadin the fourteenth century. XCIV. First Wycliffite Version of the Gospels: earliestprinted edition, issued in 1848. John Wycliffe was thefirst Englishman to project a complete translation of thewhole Latin Bible into English. It was made not fromthe Old Latin, but from Jeromes revision, now generallyused, and therefore called the Vulgate. His own share -j^j! c(^,5i^5c tjSS^fnic blni ipfr^»jl^\<*o ^^lyro IciniiCTir ndl^^i,/unUtfaac.hvI,U VaVajro^onj ul^,^•^,^^.^:^t^ ^l-V^V^lVyrqfV^^rV^^^^^^^^;^ ^^•^^^^tvVS^^M sviS^l.ronMTt.F-V : cvpyvi ouv«*i^ ^liVl^JS<^ F^^ ^S ^^^l« V^^^^^ ^,amqon;nmj yivDi byo^ wiUr ^^o^a cybltiro^y •yoit)an^i Wi reKytiru
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Abraham and Isaac at Moriah.Aelfrics version of Genesis xxii. 13-18. Fnrn taaimile h\ Dr. Keiiyon of the British Musrtim. Wycliffite Versions. 31 in the work is supposed to have been the New Testament.The dialect is that of the north, whence he came, parentof Lowland Scots. It employs the character 3, whichmeant y at the beginning of a syllable, gh elsewhere ;southern printers in later days substituted z, and insuch words as Dalziel, Menzies, quite obscured the pro-nunciation. 95. First Wycliffite Version ; facsimile page showing Acts i,1-22, reduced in size from a manuscript of the fourteenthcentury ; alternative translations underlined. 96. Prologue and Beginning of Amos, in the first Wychffiteversion. Photographic reproduction of a page from acopy of 1397, owned by the then Duke of Gloucester.(Reproduced by leave of the British Museum. See page 10.) 97. Revised Wycliffite Version, I Corinthians, xii, 28—xiv, 7.Photographic reproduction of a page from a copy in theJohn Rylands Lib

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