| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 347 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Paratexts of the English Bible, 1525-1611 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- De Nomination -- Protocols -- 1: Tudor Theological Paratexts -- Henrician Bibles: Tyndale through Taverner -- Tyndale -- Prologue to Romans ([1525] 1534) -- The Pentateuch (1530) -- The New Testament (1534) -- Myles Coverdale (1488-1569) -- The Coverdale Bible (1535) -- The Coverdale New Testament (1538) -- The Matthew Bible (1537) -- The Taverner Bible (1539) -- The Great Bible (1539) -- Jerome, Frater Ambrosius (394) |
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Erasmus, Paraclesis (1516) -- Cranmer's Preface to the Great Bible (1540) -- Edwardian Bibles -- Becke's Revisions of Matthew (1549) and Taverner-Tyndale (1551) -- Calvin's "Hard words" and "Table of principal matters" -- The Day Series (1548-1551) -- The Chekes (1552-1619) -- 2: Humanist Imprints, 1525-1553 -- Canon, Authorship, and Translation -- Exegesis: Principles and Practice -- Complications -- 3: Elizabethan First Editions -- The Paratextual Frame: Front and Final Matter -- The 1557 Geneva New Testament -- The 1560 Geneva Bible -- The 1568 Bishops' Bible -- The Calendar |
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The Summe of the Whole Scripture -- The Genealogy of Christ -- The Overview of the Canon -- The 1576 Tomson New Testament -- The 1582 Rheims New Testament and 1609-1610 Douai Old Testament -- Prologues and Glosses -- Prologues to the Psalms -- Glosses: The Gospels -- Glosses: Romans -- Glosses: Jonah, Exodus, & Genesis -- 4: Of Chronologies and Cruxes -- Diagram I: "The order of times" -- Diagram II: The Triduum -- Diagram III: The Genealogy of Christ Revisited -- Diagrams IV and V: Daniel and the Chronologers -- Coda: Chronology in the English Catholic Bible |
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5: The Royal Printer's Tale, 1577 to 1611 -- English Bibles and Their Paratexts: 1578-1583 -- The 1578 Folio Geneva -- The Geneva Black-Letter Quartos (1579-1583) -- The Tomson New Testament Octavos (1578-1583) -- The Cheke New Testament (1578-1583) -- Small-Format Bibles (1578-1583) -- English Bibles and Their Paratexts: 1584-1611 -- The Bishops' Bibles -- Genevas and Tomsons, and Geneva-Tomsons: 1584-1611 -- The Geneva-Tomson-Junius (GTJ) and Its Two New Paratexts -- APPENDIX I: The Summe as Printed in the 1537 Matthew and 1568 Bishops' Bibles |
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APPENDIX II: A Handlist of Printed English Bibles, 1525-1611 -- Bibliography -- Frequently Cited -- Bibles (Excepting English) -- New Testaments (Excepting English) -- Select Books and Articles -- Index |
| Summary |
This title studies paratexts found in sixteenth-century English Bibles, from prefaces, dedications, and annotations to prayers, diagrams, and woodcuts to shed light on the materiality of surviving Bibles and on their publication histories, but also on Reformation theology and the history of the English church |
| Notes |
This edition also issued in print: 2022 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed February 28, 2023) |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. English -- History -- 16th century
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Bible. English -- History -- 17th century
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Bible. English -- Marginal readings -- History
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Bible fast |
| Subject |
Paratext.
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Paratext
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191926235 |
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019192623X |
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0192655604 |
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9780192655608 |
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