Farfel Research Notebooks

(693 Doyle Flowers, Jr. (His books) Atlanta, GA Dec '10 $15.00 (2 leaves)

Bible, English. Geneva version; with Tomson's N.T. London: Deputies of C. Barker, 1595. f° Black letter. Another ed of Tomson's Genevan Bible of 1587 Ref: STC 2165. Herbert 225 Copy: British Lib, Bodleian, NY Public Lib. Bible House, London

O.T. 2 col. 60 lines. Black letter. Catchwords. (7 1/8 x 10 11/16") Iehoash. Elisha dyeth. Chap. XIIII. Amaziah. Iehoash. 177 Ff.3 Amaziah taken II. Kings. Azariah becommeth leprous II Kings Chap. 13:8 -> Chap. 14:9 Chap. 14:10 -> Chap. 15:11 N. T. Christ persecuted. Chap. IX. Saul converted. 550 Tabitha raised. The Actes Cornelius sendeth for Peter. The Acts Chap. 8:36 -> 9:25 Chap. 9:26 -> 10:15

Laurence Tomson (1539-1608) published a revision of Whittingham's Geneva N.T. in 1576. (Herbert #146 2878) Tomson was skilled in 12 languages + served as secretary to Queen Elizabeth's counselor Sir Francis Walsingham. He claimed to base his revision on Theodore Beza's Greek Testament, although he seems to have relied heavily on Beza's Latin translation (1576) In many later ed. of the GEneva Bible, Tomson's version was substituted for Whittingham's 1560 Testament.

Herbert #143 (2117) Geneva version f° 237 x 151 mm A. The 1st folio ed of this version printed in England. B #144 (2118) f° 237 x 147 mm Copy HEHL my leaf #327 #194 (2146) 1587 4° 195 x 129 mm Geneva version; c Tomson's N.T. The earliest complete Bible which contains this revised N.T. After this date the 4° Geneva Bibles printed in roman type as a rule contain Tomson's revision, while Bh quartos give the older version. Tomson's N.T. also appears in roman letter folio (#235 - 1597) + in several black letter folios (#210 - 1592, #225 - 1595, #268 - 1602 + #301 - 1610)

The Bh type was used for all Geneva Bibles not having Tomson's N.T.

Barker, Christopher Bookseller + printer (from 1577) in London, 1569-1587 (1599†) Queen's Printer 1577-1587 Barker, Christopher, Deputies of from 1587 the deputies were George Bishop + Ralph Newberry, joined in 1593 by Christopher's son Robert Barker.

Barker, Robert Printer in London (1589) 15931634 (1645†) Queen's from 1603 King's Printer 1600-1617 + intermittently thereafter

(694 Cohasco Inc. Yonkers, N.Y. April '11 $13.50

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Chronicon Saxonicum edited + translated into Latin by Edward Gibson 4° Oxford: Sheldonian 1692 Copy: HEHL, Harvard, Stanford Ref: Wing A3185

[12] 244, [36], 64 p. folded plate: map Anglo-Saxon + Latin in parallel columns

Saxonicum 133 188 x 227 mm An M III An M IV Chronicon 134 R3 (of 4) An M V An M VI

1692 -- 2nd printed ed. -- edited by Edmund Gibson an English jurist + divine who became Bishop of Lincoln in that year. It was printed in Latin and Anglo-Saxon in 2 parallel columns + became the standard ed. until the 19th C. The 1st ed edited by Abraham Wheloc, professor of Arabic at Cambridge, was printed 1643-44 at Cambridge. It was based mainly on the MSS called G. Gibson (1669-1648) was bishop of Lincoln + London + Lambeth Palace librarian.

First ed. of the 1st Anglo-Saxon grammer in English. Elizabeth Elstob. "The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue" London, for W. Bowyer 1715 4° pp [viii], xxxv, [1] 70 Rudiments is printed partly in Anglo-Saxon type newly cut for the purpose + afterwards presented to the Univ. of Oxford.

"The work of these 2 scholars (Gibson + Wheloc) taken together brought the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as a cardinal course of early English history for the 1st time properly into the orbit of criticism. Thanks to their editions, which were not to be superseded until the 19th C, the Parker version of the chronicle could be studied + the existence of 4 out of the 6 chief versions of the Chronicle became known to scholars" (Douglas, 'English Scholars,' p 71) Oxford -> The 1st use of Anglo-Saxon Type. William Somner, Dictionerium Saxonico-LatinoAnglicicum voces, phrases/que praecipuas Anglo/ Saxonicas complectens. Oxoni, Excudebat Guliel. Hall, pro Authore. Prostant Londini, apud Danialem White, MDCLIX (1659) In 1656 the Univ. paid Nicholas Nicholls, a prominent London type/founder c Royalist sympathies, £23.7s.2d for a fount of Anglo Saxon, 1st used in this pioneer dictionary. Until this was published, Cambridge had been the centre for studies of this period + had 1st used Anglo-Saxon type in 1643. Nicholls modelled his fount on the type designed by Francis Junius the younger about 1654; it is the latter's copy of SOmner's work shown here. In 1676 he presented founts of Anglo-Saxon, Gothic + Runic types to the Univ. (Madan 2458 Carter 44, 113 Wing S4663)

1001 -- Leif Eriksson of Greenland explores Newfoundland + winters in Vinland there 1003-6 Major attack on England by King Swen of Denmark