P063 Peculiar Bibles.

P063 Peculiar Bibles. The first printed Bible was that of Coverdale, Antwerp, 1535. The first portion of Scripture printed in England was the Seven Penitential Psalms, by Bishop Fysher, London, 1505.(1) The first New Testament printed in England was Tyndale’s, London, 1536. The first Bible printed in England was Coverdale’s, Southwark, 1537. The first New Testament printed in Scotland was the Genevan, Edinburgh, 1576. It was not published until 1579, when the Old Testament was issued with it. The first New Testament of the Authorized Version printed in Scotland was in Edinburgh, 1628. The first complete Bible of the Authorized Version printed in Scotland was in Edinburgh, 1633. The first Bible printed in Ireland was the Authorized Version, Dublin, 1714. The first portion of Scripture printed in America, and the first book of any kind, was what is usually called The Bay Psalm Book, being a metrical version of the Psalms. Cambridge, Mass., 1640. The first New Testament printed in America was the Authorized Version, Boston, 1742. (This book has a London imprint.) The first Bible printed in America was the Authorized Version, Boston, 1752. (This, also, has falsely a London imprint.) The first Bible printed in America and having an American imprint was the Authorized Version, Philadelphia, 1782. The first English translation from the Septuagint was by Charles Thompson, Philadelphia, 1808.

2. Singular Renderings. The Bug Bible. This is Matthew’s Bible, 1551, and is so called because of the rendering of Psalm xci, 5. Instead of, "Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night," as in our version, it has, "So that thou shalt not nede to be afrayed (cont.next page)

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(FN1)Bishop Fysher’s Psalms was the first portion of Scripture printed as such; though, as noted on page 16, The Golden Legend, which was printed in 1483, had scriptural translations mingled with its lives of the saints.

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