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1549 Thomas Matthew / William Tyndale
A leaf from the earliest available printing of “Tyndale’s Bible.” William Tyndale was the first to translate the scriptures directly into English from the original Biblical Hebrew and Greek. This 1549 reprinting by John Rogers (aka “Thomas Matthew”) of the 1537 edition is over 470 years old. These large folio-sized leaves, printed on 100% rag cotton paper, measure approximately 12″ tall by 7.5″ inches wide, and each leaf is a unique piece of ancient artwork, carefully produced one-at-a-time, using a movable-type press. Each comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
They are the second printing of the Bible to be directly translated from the original Biblical languages of Hebrew and Greek straight into English. Tyndale Bible leaves, indeed any English Bible leaves printed in the first half of the 1500s, are rapidly disappearing from the market.
1551 Erasmus-Stephanus Latin/Greek
To our knowledge, these extremely historically important leaves have never been offered for sale by anyone at any time, and every collector of Bible leaves will surely want one. We have secured a fragment of the 1551 “Latin-Greek-Latin” New Testament of Erasmus, published by Robert “Stephanus” Estienne. One of the most important books ever printed; it is the first printed scripture with modern verse divisions!
1555 Stephanus Latin Bible The First With Numbered Verses
The first Latin Bible to be printed with verse numeration is known in modern Bibles. (The Stephanus versification first appears in any Bible in his 1553 French Bible, Darlow and Moule #3719, Van Eys #70.) Latin text here follows the Stephanus printings of 1538-40 and 1546. Text in double columns with references, variants, and section letters in the margins. The beginning of each verse is marked by a pillcrow (paragraph mark) followed by its number. In the Old Testament books of the Hebrew Canon, Stephanus adopted the already existing system of verse division but added numbers; in the New Testament here, he follows his own 1551 Greek New Testament versification and numeration.
Geneva Bible Leaf:
A leaf from one of the earliest printings of the famous Geneva Bible: printed between the 1560s and 1644 … these leaves are over 370 years old. They come with a beautiful Historical Brochure & Certificate of Authenticity. The Geneva Bible (also known as the “Breeches” Bible) was the Bible of the Protestant Reformation. It was produced more than 50 years before the King James Bible, and it remained the most popular English language Bible among the people until decades after the introduction of the King James Bible. Whether framed and displayed in your home or given as a wonderfully unique gift: it is sure to draw attention.
King James Bible Leaf:
A leaf from one of the earliest printings of the original King James Bible: printed between 1614 and 1649 in England… these leaves are well over 360 years old. They each come with a beautiful eight-page Historical Brochure containing a Certificate of Authenticity signed by the founder of the World Bible Society. The King James Bible remains the greatest book in the English language and the best-selling book of all time. It is in fact, the only book with over one billion copies in print, and this leaf is from one of the first several thousand to be printed. Whether framed and displayed in your home or given as a wonderfully unique gift: it is sure to draw attention.
