1611 Geneva Bible Lectern
$6,995.00
Item # GSF1711
OT Title Page: No Date
NT Title Page: 1611
Size: 12.75 x 8.75 x 3
Font: Black Letter
Additional Features:
Genealogy of Jesus
Second Table
WoodCuts
Full Calf
End Papers: Cotton
Appraisal Value: $20,000
In stock
Description
1611 Geneva Bible
The Geneva Bible was the “Bible of the Protestant Reformation”, and the Bible of the Puritans and Pilgrims. It was the first Bible taken to America on the Mayflower. The Geneva Bible is the Bible upon which America was founded. You can imagine that most early American colonists, fleeing the religious oppression of the Anglican Church (Church of England), wanted nothing to do with the King James Bible of the Anglican Church!
Textually, the Geneva Bible offered a number of radical never-before-seen changes: It was the first Bible in English to add numbered verses to each chapter of scripture. Also, the Geneva was the first Bible to introduce an easier-to-read “Roman Style Typeface” rather than the “Gothic Blackletter Style Typeface” used exclusively in earlier Bibles, although subsequent printing of the Geneva Bible offered people the choice of both styles of type font. Another curious innovation; the Geneva was the first “Study Bible” with extensive commentary notes in the margins.
The Geneva Bible is the version quoted hundreds of times by William Shakespeare in his plays. First printed in 1560, and also called the “Breeches Bible”, the Geneva Bible is the only Bible ever able to outsell and exceed the popularity of the King James Bible, as it did in the early 1600s until its printing ceased in 1644. In fact, one of the greatest ironies of history is that Protestants of all denominations today embrace the King James Version of the Bible (which reads 90% the same as the Geneva), even though the King James Version is not a Protestant Bible (it’s Anglican / Church of England). Most Protestants have never even heard of the Bible of their own heritage: the Geneva Bible. It was produced by John Calvin, John Knox, Myles Coverdale, John Foxe, & other English refugees in ever-neutral Geneva, Switzerland… fleeing the persecution of the Roman Catholic Queen “Bloody” Mary in England.
Imagine… having a genuine original ancient Geneva Bible as a family heirloom or display item for your home.