Old velum scrap

[Lydart]

(Just book-marking !)

[Ruskie]

That's very lucky Rog - you must have been meant to have it. 

(When you have a chance do you mind showing us a couple of pictures from inside?)

[Lydart]

The Breeches Bible was so called because of the verse in Genesis about Adam and Eve sewing together fig leaves to make themselves 'breeches' ...

I think it precedes the King James version by ??  50 years ?



I must Google ! 

[alpinecottage]

I think it may be partly in Latin and partly in English.

Top line second word; Johanus for John
Top line about half way along; backward comma looks like g means "and"
2nd line left hand end;obid =? died, then a name, then "Husbandman ? in England
3rd line left hand end IIj or LLj a number, then something, then ?monies, then Anglia

Just wondering if it could be part of a will?

[Lydart]

Yep !   It the other name for the Geneva Bible ... 1560; King James was 1611.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Bible

[Suttonrog]

Thanks Alpine,

That gives me someting to go on.

Lydart is correct. The protestants left England during the reign of Queen Mary and retranslated the Bible in Geneva from the original Greek and Hebrew texts. They cut out all the flowery language they put in some very basic words like breeches. It was also the first bible to have verse numbers.

This Bible was printed in very large numbers in Geneva from 1560. After the death of Mary, Elizabeth gave a warrant to Robert Barker to print the bible in England from 1576.

I'm sorry but I don't have any pictures of the inside pages. I will post some when I get the bible back.

Rog

[josey]

Top line about half way along; backward comma looks like g means "and"

Is that the original ampersand?

[alpinecottage]

Top line about half way along; backward comma looks like g means "and"

Is that the original ampersand?

I got that little gem from my family history mag which arrived today, so I don't know what it's called as the article doesn't name it - sorry.

[Lydart]

& & &   !!!!!!