{"product_id":"1583-geneva-new-testament-bible","title":"1583 Geneva New Testament Bible","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"246\" data-end=\"589\"\u003eAn authentic Elizabethan printing of the Geneva New Testament, printed in London in 1583 by Christopher Barker, Royal Printer to Queen Elizabeth I. This edition represents one of the most influential English translations of the Scriptures produced during the English Reformation and predates the King James Bible by twenty-eight years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"591\" data-end=\"865\"\u003eIssued as a New Testament only, this was a common and intentional format in the sixteenth century. Separate New Testaments were popular among clergy, students, merchants, and travellers because they were less expensive and considerably more portable than complete Bibles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"867\" data-end=\"946\"\u003eThe volume contains the distinctive features that made the Geneva Bible famous:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-start=\"948\" data-end=\"1226\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"7ez5hw\" data-start=\"948\" data-end=\"980\"\u003eDecorative woodcut title page.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"hzww2v\" data-start=\"981\" data-end=\"1024\"\u003eExtensive Protestant marginal commentary.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"1x9095s\" data-start=\"1025\" data-end=\"1044\"\u003eCross references.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"nbblmd\" data-start=\"1045\" data-end=\"1065\"\u003eChapter summaries.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"id8dma\" data-start=\"1066\" data-end=\"1084\"\u003eVerse numbering.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"189dino\" data-start=\"1085\" data-end=\"1129\"\u003eRoman type with italicized supplied words.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"1ts4i93\" data-start=\"1130\" data-end=\"1226\"\u003eTranslation based directly upon the Greek text and the best Reformation scholarship available.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1228\" data-end=\"1257\"\u003eThe title page reads in part:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote data-start=\"1259\" data-end=\"1477\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1261\" data-end=\"1477\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"1261\" data-end=\"1477\"\u003eThe Newe Testament of our Lord Iesus Christ... conferred diligently with the Greeke, and best approved translations in divers languages... Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes Maiestie.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003ch1 data-section-id=\"1rl2qad\" data-start=\"1484\" data-end=\"1506\"\u003ePhysical Description\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cul data-start=\"1508\" data-end=\"1863\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"x8vhu5\" data-start=\"1508\" data-end=\"1543\"\u003eLondon: Christopher Barker, 1583.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"oi4uhv\" data-start=\"1544\" data-end=\"1603\"\u003eFull leather binding (later, probably twentieth century).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"1v51m3k\" data-start=\"1604\" data-end=\"1644\"\u003eOriginal sixteenth-century text block.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"17vqozn\" data-start=\"1645\" data-end=\"1688\"\u003eDecorative engraved woodcut title border.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"uh6hx3\" data-start=\"1689\" data-end=\"1719\"\u003eComplete title page present.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"p0qrjo\" data-start=\"1720\" data-end=\"1754\"\u003eMarginal annotations throughout.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"123eyq8\" data-start=\"1755\" data-end=\"1805\"\u003eContemporary typography in excellent impression.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"1n4s9ah\" data-start=\"1806\" data-end=\"1863\"\u003eNumerous early printed cross references and commentary.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1865\" data-end=\"2097\"\u003eThe present binding is an attractive later rebinding executed to preserve the text block. While not original to the volume, it has protected the book well and allows the sixteenth-century leaves to remain in notably sound condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2099\" data-end=\"2290\"\u003eCondition is very good for a book approaching 450 years of age, with expected age toning, light staining, and normal evidence of handling but no obvious major losses visible from examination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 data-section-id=\"2ah60e\" data-start=\"2297\" data-end=\"2320\"\u003eHistorical Importance\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2322\" data-end=\"2389\"\u003eFew English books have had greater influence than the Geneva Bible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2391\" data-end=\"2611\"\u003eProduced by English Protestant scholars during the reign of Queen Mary I while living in exile at Geneva, Switzerland, the translation first appeared in 1560 and quickly became the preferred Bible of English Protestants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2613\" data-end=\"2672\"\u003eUnlike earlier English Bibles, the Geneva Bible introduced:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-start=\"2674\" data-end=\"2818\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"1fpuumr\" data-start=\"2674\" data-end=\"2712\"\u003enumbered verses throughout the text,\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"11wpe14\" data-start=\"2713\" data-end=\"2742\"\u003edetailed explanatory notes,\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"4nd26w\" data-start=\"2743\" data-end=\"2773\"\u003esystematic cross references,\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"if1j4s\" data-start=\"2774\" data-end=\"2818\"\u003epractical study aids for ordinary readers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2820\" data-end=\"2873\"\u003eIt became the household Bible of Elizabethan England.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2875\" data-end=\"2935\"\u003eAmong those who almost certainly used the Geneva Bible were:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-start=\"2937\" data-end=\"3026\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"1sa643b\" data-start=\"2937\" data-end=\"2958\"\u003eWilliam Shakespeare\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"1woj4lg\" data-start=\"2959\" data-end=\"2972\"\u003eJohn Bunyan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"107zhpe\" data-start=\"2973\" data-end=\"2990\"\u003eOliver Cromwell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"17z81as\" data-start=\"2991\" data-end=\"3026\"\u003eThe Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3028\" data-end=\"3287\"\u003eKing James I strongly disliked many of the Geneva Bible's marginal notes, particularly those discussing kings and civil authority. His dissatisfaction with those annotations became one of the principal reasons for commissioning the King James Version in 1604.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3289\" data-end=\"3441\"\u003eThis 1583 edition was printed only five years before the defeat of the Spanish Armada and twenty-eight years before publication of the King James Bible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 data-section-id=\"bcr5oc\" data-start=\"3448\" data-end=\"3468\"\u003eChristopher Barker\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3470\" data-end=\"3595\"\u003eChristopher Barker served as the official Printer to Queen Elizabeth I and held the royal patent for printing English Bibles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3597\" data-end=\"3772\"\u003eHis press produced many of the finest Elizabethan Bible editions, and Barker's Geneva Bibles are among the most sought-after surviving English Bibles of the sixteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 data-section-id=\"8fjg7c\" data-start=\"3779\" data-end=\"3809\"\u003eThe Handwritten Inscriptions\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3811\" data-end=\"3924\"\u003eInserted at the front of the volume is a manuscript page containing several paragraphs of handwritten commentary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4115\" data-end=\"4273\"\u003eRather than serving as an ownership inscription, it appears to be an antiquarian collector's essay discussing the historical significance of the Geneva Bible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4275\" data-end=\"4302\"\u003eSubjects addressed include:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-start=\"4304\" data-end=\"4674\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"sdsmqe\" data-start=\"4304\" data-end=\"4354\"\u003eChristopher Barker as Queen Elizabeth's printer.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"1ru9w8e\" data-start=\"4355\" data-end=\"4398\"\u003eThe importance of the Geneva translation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"2kx4n1\" data-start=\"4399\" data-end=\"4450\"\u003eComparison with earlier and later English Bibles.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"wdirz3\" data-start=\"4451\" data-end=\"4509\"\u003eThe Geneva Bible's popularity among English Protestants.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"txma39\" data-start=\"4510\" data-end=\"4575\"\u003eReferences to Shakespeare and the influence of the Geneva text.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"18j5ofg\" data-start=\"4576\" data-end=\"4633\"\u003eObservations concerning the translation from the Greek.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"9oezej\" data-start=\"4634\" data-end=\"4674\"\u003eRemarks on the Protestant annotations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4676\" data-end=\"4955\"\u003eAlthough not contemporary with the printing of the book, the manuscript represents an interesting piece of the volume's collecting history and demonstrates that previous owners regarded the work as historically significant long before the modern market for rare Bibles developed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4957\" data-end=\"5051\"\u003eA full scholarly transcription may be possible with higher-resolution photography or scanning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 data-section-id=\"5ek4xz\" data-start=\"5058\" data-end=\"5083\"\u003eCollecting Significance\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5085\" data-end=\"5218\"\u003eExamples of sixteenth-century Geneva New Testaments survive in significantly smaller numbers than later seventeenth-century editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5220\" data-end=\"5284\"\u003eParticularly desirable features present in this example include:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-start=\"5286\" data-end=\"5498\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"xfbdnw\" data-start=\"5286\" data-end=\"5308\"\u003eOriginal title page.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"1bmkmwf\" data-start=\"5309\" data-end=\"5326\"\u003eSharp printing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"14mar9j\" data-start=\"5327\" data-end=\"5359\"\u003eExtensive marginal commentary.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"1e55yjt\" data-start=\"5360\" data-end=\"5398\"\u003eGood preservation of the text block.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"7vywyl\" data-start=\"5399\" data-end=\"5441\"\u003eAttractive protective leather rebinding.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"1oiyova\" data-start=\"5442\" data-end=\"5498\"\u003eHistorical manuscript notes preserved with the volume.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWeight - 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