Beschreibung:

Bible [New Testament - English, Douai]. The New Testament of Jesus Christ, Translated Faithfully into English, out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred with the Greeke and other editions in divers languages; with Arguments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better understanding of the text, and specially for the discoverie of the Corruptions of divers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: in the English College of Rhemes, 1st edition, Printed at Rhemes: by John Fogny, 1582, title within decorative border, decorative woodcut initials, head & tailpieces, fore-edge margin to C1 with 18th-century(?) signature Elizabeth Hicken, verso of fore-edge margin of 2N4 with 16th/17th-century pen, ink and watercolour armorial (worn & partially rubbed through with some loss), lacking three leaves (3I2, 3U1 & 4S4), decorative initial and some text excised from five leaves (2U3, 2Y2, 3H4, 3U2 & 4N1), light worming to gutter margins of few leaves, dog-eared leaves particularly at front and rear, dust-soiled throughout, damp staining and marks, marginal tearing and fraying mostly to title, initial and last few leaves, sewing weak and last few leaves loosening or detached, contemporary sheep with rollwork border decoration to boards, leather detached and partially lacking to boards, covers detached and spine largely lacking, covers very worn, 4to (22.2 x 16 cm) (Quantity: 1) Herbert 177; Darlow & Moule 134; STC 2884; Pforzheimer, 68. The Douai version, translated from the Vulgate by Gregory Martin, under the supervision of William Allen (afterwards Cardinal Allen), and Richard Bristow. According to the Douay Diaries, Martin began the translation in October 1578 and completed it in March 1582.