By Molly Banwart Illumination of texts didn’t end with manuscripts! Early printed books continued the tradition, and some illumination can be used to find out an item’s provenance. In recent cataloging discoveries, we’ve come across two copies of the 1524 New Testament in Greek. One copy (IUA17770) has stayed close to its original state with […]
Category: Bibles
The First Bible printed in the Western Hemisphere
April 3, 2006
***This post was previously posted at the RBML Discoveries from the Vault website*** Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God. Naneeswe Nukkone Testament kah wonk Wusku Testament. 2 vols. Cambridge, [Massachusetts]: Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson: 1663, 1661. [The Holy Bible: Containing The Old Testament and The New. Translated into the Indian Language, And Ordered to be Printed […]