OURIOUS BIBLES

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 308, 30 December 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)

OURIOUS BIBLES

The market value of a bible is not necessarily great because it is more than 100 years old. Only the very early ! editions and a few of the later are valuable. The following are considered .-most valuable: — ; Tyndale's first English translation of the New Testament, 1520. Two copies known, one belonging to St. Paul's. ■ Coverdale's first complete translation of the whole Bible, 1533. No perfect copy .extant. The "Bug" Bible, 1551. ("Thou . shalt not be afraid for any Bugges by nighte"; instead of, as now, "terror.") The 2nd Geneva version, 1502. ("Blessed are the placemakers.") The "Wicked" Bib'e, IG31 —in which "not"' is omitted from the seventh commandment. Four copies extant —one in the Bodleian, one ill the British Museum', The "Treacle" Bible, 1508. (Jeremiah viii., 22, "balm.") I 'The authorised version appeared in LlOll, and there separate issues I of. it with every leaf distinct. This pair, the parents of millions of. our Bibles, are distinguished as .the : "Great He Bible" and the "Great She Bible." These . nicknames come from the readings in Ruth iii., 15, the one having, "he measured six measures of barley, and I laid it on her. and He went into the city," -while the other liae, "She went into the city." A copy of cither 1011. edition is worth from £0 to £10. '