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 with manuscript ownership signatures and annotations including Edmund Kay dated 1792 (title with frayed fore-margin repaired to outer corners), decorative woodcut initials, head & tailpieces, lacking leaves A2 and final leaf 5E2 (both provided in facsimile), occasional ink markings, few running titles shaved, toning, dust-soiling, occasional light damp-stains and marks, late 19th-century ownership label of Edward Pollard to upper pastedown, recent free endpapers, 17th-century calf, modern reback, board corners worn and showing, 4to (20 x 14.5 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.