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Special Collections Exhibit 2014: List

Bibles and Bible commentary.

List with links to Annotated List with Photographs

1. 1589:  [The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations upon all the hard places, and other things of great importance, as may appeare in the epistle to the reader. And also a most profitable concordance for the readie finding out of any thing in the same conteined.]  London:  by the deputies of Christopher Barker, 1589.

2. [1656/1788:  Luther, Martin, and Johannes Michael Dilherr et al.  Biblia, das ist, die gantze heilige Schrifft dess alten und neuen Testaments.  Wie solche von Hernn Doctor Martin Luther Seel. im Jahr Christi 1522 in unsere Teutsche Mutter-Sprach zu übersetzen angefangen anno 1554 zu End gebracht. . . .  Nürnberg:  Endter, n. d.]  Gift of SPU Instructor of Nursing Heidi Monroe.

3. [1700/1788:  Luther, Martin, and Johannes Michael Dilherr et al.  Biblia, das ist, die gantze heilige Schrifft dess alten und neuen Testaments.  Wie solche von Hernn Doctor Martin Luther Seel. im Jahr Christi 1522 in unsere Teutsche Mutter-Sprach zu übersetzen angefangen anno 1554 zu End gebracht. . . .  Nürnberg:  Endter, n. d.]  Gift of former members of the SPU faculty Margaret Bursell, E. E. Cochrane, E. Walter Helsel, Florence Jordan, Gail Kiser, Thelma Larson, C. May Marston, and Kenneth Miles.

4. 1706:  Whitby, Daniel.  A paraphrase and commentary on the New Testament.  In two volumes. . . .  Second edition.  London:  W. Bowyer, for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster Row, 1706.

5. 1745:  Starke, Christoph.  Synopsis bibliothecae exegeticae in Vetus Testamentum.  Kurzgefasster Auszug der gründlichsten und nutzbarsten Auslegung über alle Bücher Altes Testaments, in Tabellen, Erklärungen, Anmerkungen und Nutzanwendungen, mit Zuziehung des Grundtextes, und fleissiger Anführung der dabey gebrauchten Bücher, zum erwunschten Handbuch, sowol Kirchen-Schul- und Haus-Lehrern zur Unterweisung ... und mit einer Vorrede tit. Herrn Johann Bernhard Hassels.  Erster Theil, welcher enthält die fünf Bücher Mosis, . . . von Christoph Starke. . . . Die andere verbessserte Auflage. . . . Leipzig:  bey Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf, 1745.  With other volumes from the Old and New Testament series.  Gift of Dr. Stanley D. Walters.

6. 1746:  Biblia, det er, den gandske Hell. Skriftes:  Bøger, ved Hans Kongel. Majests. vor allernaadigste Arve-Herres, Kong Christian den Siettes Christelige Omsorg, med Fliid og efter Grund-Texten efterseete og rettede; saa og med Paralleler forsynede.  Det fierde Oplage.  Kjøbenhavn:  Udi det Kongel. Waysenhuses Bogtrykkerie, og paa dets Forlag, trykt af Gottmann Friderich Kisel, 1746.  Gift of Mattie J. Peterson (1882-1977).

7. 1798:  Scarlett, Nathaniel.  A translation of the New Testament from the original Greek. Humbly attempted by Nathaniel Scarlett, assisted by men of piety and literature: with notes.  London:  T. Gillet, 1798.

8. 1799:  Doddridge, Philip.  The family expositor:  or, a paraphrase and version of the New Testament; with critical notes, and a practical improvement of each section. . . .  8th ed.  6 vols.  London:  Printed by H. Baldwin and Son, for [many others], 1799.

9. 19th cent.:  Yemenite Torah.  Gift of Alan and Cynthia Boyce.

10. 1821:   Rosenmüller, Ernst Friedrich Karl.  Scholia in Vetus Testamentum [(1788- )].  Editio secunda auctior et emendatior.  Leipzig:  Joh. Ambros.  Barth, 1821.  Gift of Dr. Stanley D. Walters.

11. 1823:  Wesley, John, ed.  A Christian library:  consisting of extracts from and abridgments of the choicest pieces of practical divinity which have been published in the English tongue.  In thirty volumes.  First published in 1750, in fifty volumes, 12MO [(1749 ff.)].  London:  T. Cordeux, for T. Blanshard, 1819-1827.  Gift of Dr. Stanley D. Walters.

12. 1845:  Luther, Martin.  D. Martini Lutheri exegetica opera Latina.  Ed. Joan. Conrad. Irmischer.  Vols. 13-15, including (in vol. 14) Operationes in Psalmos 1.  Erlangen:  Heyder, 1845.

13. 1847:  Wesley, John.  Explanatory notes upon the New Testament [(1755)].  New York:  published by Lane & Tippett, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, Joseph Longking, Printer, 1847.  Gift of the Rev. John H. Van Lierop.

14. [1850s]:  Clarke, Adam.  The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testament:  the text carefully printed from the most correct copies of the present Authorized Translation, including the marginal readings and parallel texts.  With a commentary and critical notes . . . by Adam Clarke, LL.D., F.A.S. [(1810-1824)].  A new edition, with the author’s final corrections.  6 vols.  London:  William Tegg, n.d.

15. 1863-1867:  Chrysostom, John.  Saint Jean Chrysostome œuvres completes traduites pour la première fois en Français sous la direction de M. [Jean-Baptiste] Jeannin. . . . Bar-le-duc:  L. Guérin & Cie, Éditeurs, 1863-1867.  Gift of the Jean-Léon Allie O.M.I. Library, Université Saint-Paul, Ottawa.

16. 1881:  The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ translated out of the Greek:  being the version set forth A.D. 1611 compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1881.  Printed for the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.  Cambridge:  at the University Press, 1881.  Gift of Henry Caumont Force.

17. 1939:  The New Testament translated by William Tyndale, 1534:  a reprint of the edition of 1534 with the translator’s prefaces and notes and the variants of the edition of 1525.  Edited for the Royal Society of Literature by N. Hardy Wallis, M.A. . . . with an introduction by the Right Honourable Isaac Foot. . . .  Cambridge:  printed for the Royal Society of Literature at the University Press, 1939.  Purchased from Baptist historian of awakenings and revivals J. Edwin Orr.

18. 2005-2012:  Jackson, Donald, and Saint John’s University.  The Saint John’s Bible.  7 vols.  Collegeville, MN:  Liturgical Press, 2005-2012.