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Collection: Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Bible Collection
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Prothro B-39
First complete American Bible printed in English. Known as the "Aitken Bible".
Prothro B-305
First printed Turkish translation of the New Testament. Originally translated by Ali Bey (Albertus Bobowsky) in 1666.
Prothro B-62/A
First quarto edition of the King James Bible printed in Roman type, intended for personal use. Includes Apocrypha; without genealogies and map.
Prothro B-05
King James I appointed a committee to create an authoritative English Bible to replace the "Geneva" and "Bishops'" Bibles. Illustrations and ornamental letters are included throughout.
Prothro B-65
The King James Version of the Bible was protected and only allowed to be printed by the king's printer or the official printers of Cambridge and Oxford. Baskerville became the printer at Cambridge in 1758. Includes tables of measurements and guides…
Prothro B-69
Baskerville's second edition of the King James Bible with engravings and illustrations. This illustrated edition was sold in installments by subscription.
Prothro B-115
Marian devotions based on the 150 Psalm incipits, attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux, St. Bonaventure and St. Jerome. Each poem begins with the Latin psalm followed by Dutch devotions to Mary.
Prothro B-117
First Printed Vulgate with woodcuts throughout. Includes the typical details of Vulgate Bibles at the time: rinted initials, chapter numbers, book headlines, foliation, marginal references, chapter subdivisions, and additional readers' aids.
Prothro B-313
In this edition of the Gopsels, Giovanni Mardersteig (1892–1977), used his own Renaissance-inspired "Zeno" typeface and Bruno Bramat's illustrations which were recreations of Bartolommeo de Giovanni in 1495.
Prothro B-388
William Carey (1761–1834) supervised the translation of the New Testament into Naipali, a dialect of Pahari spoken in Nepal, Bhutan, and some parts of India and Burma. Title page describes this edition as a complete Bible, but only the New Testament…
Prothro B-390
First editition of the Pentateuch in Oriya, a language from the east coast of India.
Prothro B-92
"Coverdale Bible", first edition of the complete Bible in English compiled from Latin and German versions and Tyndale's English translation.
Prothro B-61
The large format of this Bible earned it the name "Great Bible". The translation was Miles Coverdale's revision of the "Matthew's Bible" with a prologue written by Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556).
Prothro B-180
Dali's version of the Vulgate Bible which is a livre d'artiste and includes 105 illustrations based on Dali's watercolors.
Prothro B-122
First Italian Protestant translation from Hebrew and Greek. It was widely used by Italian Protestants well into the twentieth century.
Prothro B-26
John Baskett (1665–1742) printed this Bible with multiple misprints gaining it the name "Baskett-ful of Errors" and "Vinegar Bible". Despite the misspellings, the Bible contains rich engravings.
Prothro B-64/A
The 2nd edition of Eliot's Bible, revised by him, with the assistance of John Cotton. This Bible is comprised of Eliot's 1680 New Testament and his revised Old Testament of 1685.
Prothro B-10
Erasmus' second edition of his Latin translation (from Greek). Latin and Greek are side by side in this edition.
Prothro B-197
Second edition of the pocket-sized octavo Latin Bible. Includes marginal chapter differences and references, a subject index, and a tabular summary of the books. Earliest printed Latin Bible with a woodcut illustration.
Prothro B-48
Multilingual book of psalms with title, text and colophon in five languages, Hebrew, Latin, Greek, Arabic, and Aramaic. Scholia in Latin. Included is a brief biography of Christopher Columbus.
Prothro B-51
Single vellum leaf from a Gutenberg Bible that was disassembled for binding material. Text is part of Genesis 46-48.
Prothro B-394
Known as Hutter's, or the Nuremberg Polyglot New Testament. New Testament in twelve languages, including the original Greek, St. Jerome's Latin, eight Protestant versions in European languages, his own Hebrew translation, and his Syriac translation…
Prothro B-320
Third edition of the Mikraot Gedolot (Rabbinic Bible), Hebrew scriptures with Targimim, traditional commentaries. Includes the Masorah that Daniel Bomberg included in the second edition.
24780
Six-volume multilingual Bible with Greek Septuagint and New Testament, Latin Vulgate, Hebrew Old Testament, and Aramaic translation in the lower margin.
Prothro B-16/B
Eighteenth century readers wanted additional illustrations for their Bible so publishers would produce engravings to be inserted within standard Bibles. This Bible of 1763 was interleaved with some 200 illustrations from the London bookseller Richard…
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