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The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments / translated out of the original tongues ; and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty's special command ; appointed to be read in churches.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Collection BS185 1902
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Bible. English. Authorized
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Hebrew
- Penn Provenance:
- Penniman, Eleanor (donor) (Furness copy)
- Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 (autograph) (Furness copy)
- Thompson, Kate Furness, 1887-1965 (inscription) (Furness copy)
- Physical Description:
- [4], 1256 pages ; 24 cm
- Manufacture:
- Oxford : Printed at the University Press [by Horace Hart, printer to the University]
- Place of Publication:
- London ... Oxford University Press Warehouse, Amen Corner ; New York, 91 & 93, Fifth Avenue : Henry Frowde, [not after 1902]
- Notes:
- Printer's name from verso of title leaf.
- Terminus ante quem for imprint date from manuscript gift inscription dated 18 May 1902 in Penn Libraries Furness copy.
- "Small pica 8vo. Thin"--Title leaf.
- The New Testament has special title leaf which reads.: The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ translated out of the original Greek: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty's special command appointed to be read in churches.
- Local Notes:
- Furness copy has manuscript scribble in pencil on verso of front free endpaper and on title leaf.
- Furness copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Eleanor Penniman.
- Furness copy has on verso of front free endpaper dated 20th-century manuscript inscription ("To Helen Kate Furness from her grandfather Horace Howard Furness with the most earnest wish that she should allow no day of her life to pass without reading a chapter, or a portion of a chapter at least, of the New Testament. 18 May, 1902.") recording the gift of this volume from Horace Howard Furness (1833-1912) to Helen Kate Furness (later Thompson; 1887-1965).
- Furness copy: right board, free endpapers, first two leaves of text, and pages 1241-1256 detached.
- OCLC:
- 1302753935
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