BIBLE in ENGLISH
John Speed
The Holy Bible Conteyning The Old Testament and The New
Newly Translated Out of Ye Originall
[Title continues]...
And with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by His Majesties Special Commandment. Appointed to be read in churches.
London: Robert Barker; 1631
[Bound with]
The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures, According to euery Family and Tribe.
With The Line of Ovr Sauiour Iesus Christ, obserued from Adam to the blessed Virgin Mary.
By J. S. [ie. John Speed].
Cum privilegio. Together with The Psalmes of David of that Tranflation which is commonly used in the Church.
Together with The Whole Book of Psalmes Collected into English Meater by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others.
Original full leather binding, with beautiful embossed gilt decoration to the front, spine and rear.
Text in double columns.
Illustrated by engraved title pages, head and tail piece vignettes and decorated initials.
The Bible appears complete, but there is no numbering of pages, so collation is reliant on the register.
The beginning portion particularly (Genealogies and introductory matter) appears to begin each section with a new register, so the genealogies appear not to be complete.
There is no title page for the Old Testament - beginning with the first page of the book of Genesis.
However, the register shows that this page followed properly, and indicates no loss.
The full collation is as follows:
The Genealogies - title page, verso is dedication to the Christian reader.
A Description of Canaan (Two leaves, with text and double page map).
Total 3 leaves. (no printer's marks) followed by 8 Trees of Genealogy (B-B6).
An Act of Uniformity of Common Prayer. (A2-A7).
Dedication to King James (A2)
The Old Testament then Begins A3-Yy3 (including the Book of Apocrypha. Engraved title for the New Testament (dated 1631). Pagination continues Yy4-Kkk8. Finis with Barker's imprint and date 1631.
The Book of Psalmes is followed by The Whole book of Psalmes collected into English Meater.
Which has it's own engraved title page.
The collation is A-G3.
The binding is sound.
With slight chipping to some pages.
Some pages have closed tears, and a few pages have loss of paper.
The blank page preceding the Psalmes of David has numerous births (18th century) written and crossed out.
Speed, ESTC: S122248. Bible ESTC: S122246
Size 175 x 120 mm (7 x 4 3/4 inches).

Historian John Speed (1542–1629) worked with Hebrew scholar Hugh Broughton to create a 36-page genealogy to accompany the first printing of the King James Bible.
John Speed (1551 or 1552 – 28 July 1629) was an English cartographer, chronologer and historian of Cheshire origins.
The son of a citizen and Merchant Taylor in London,[2] he rose from his family occupation to accept the task of drawing together and revising the histories, topographies and maps of the Kingdoms of Great Britain as an exposition of the union of their monarchies in the person of King James I and VI.
He accomplished this with remarkable success, with the support and assistance of the leading antiquarian scholars of his generation. He drew upon and improved the shire maps of Christopher Saxton, John Norden and others, being the first to incorporate the hundred-boundaries into them, and he was the surveyor and originator of many of the town or city plans inset within them.[4] His work helped to define early modern concepts of British national identity. His Biblical genealogies were also formally associated with the first edition of the King James Bible. He is among the most famous of English mapmakers.



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