Posted on 12/02/2008 5:33:53 PM PST by Alex Murphy
Printed in 1594, the ancient tome is a Geneva Bible which went on to cause great controversy because it contained annotations which enraged the Catholic Church and infuriated King James....The English Geneva Bible was published at a time when the Roman Catholic Church had banned all vernacular translations of the scriptures. It is also the edition of the Bible that Shakespeare read and is quoted in his plays.
That is amazingly cool!
I love the Elizabethan time period.
It is pretty cool to find one, isn’t it?
GGG?
YES!
Especially one that was discovered at such a historical landmark. I realize it wasn’t there when Mary Queen of Scots was, but it’s just a very unique estate.
Oh, to tour the UK. One day, one day I will and hopefully it won’t be completely under Sharia Law by then. I better hurry.
The Geneva Bible was completed between 1557 and 1560.
The "Roman Catholic Church" in England was on its way to being hunted into extinction by 1560. (Queen Mary had died two years before.)
By the time the Geneva Bible was actually printed, in 1575, the persecution was well advanced.
If you want someone to blame for the suppression of the Geneva Bible, blame the CofE, because they were the ones running the show in England after 1558.
Oh, and the Catholic Church has never had a universal ban on vernacular translations of the Scriptures. There was a local ban in France in between about 1229 and 1259, due to the Albigensian heresy. Vernacular Bibles in England, prior to the Reformation, were often considered a sign of Protestant sympathies and prosecuted as such. Of course, we're talking about a period >30 years before the Geneva Bible existed.
Wow! I thought the Public School Bible I purchased at an auction was rare (circa 1915).
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Yeah, gotta love all that "off with their heads" stuff...so entertaining.
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Ahem. Was it perhaps this Bible?
THE BUGGRE ALLE THIS BIBLE
The book was commonly known as the Buggre Alle This Bible. The lengthy compositor's error, if such it may be called, occurs in the book of Ezekiel, chapter 48, verse five:
2. And bye the border of Dan, fromme the east side to the west side, a portion for Afher.
3. And bye the border of Afhter, fromme the east side even untoe the west side, a portion for Naphtali.
4. And bye the border of Naphtali, from the east side untoe the west side, a portion for Manaffeh.
5. Buggre all this for a Larke. I amme sick to mye Hart of typefettinge. Master Biltonn if no Gentelmann, and Master Scagges noe more than a tighte fisted Southwarke Knobbefticke. I telle you, onne a daye laike thif Ennywone half an oz. of Sense should bee oute in the Sunneshain, ane nott Stucke here alle the liuelong daie inn thif mowldey olde By-Our-Lady Workefhoppe. @*"Æ@;!*
6. And bye the border of Ephraim, from the east fide even untoe the west fide, a portion for Reuben.
(With grins and appreciation to author Terry Pratchett!)
The off with their heads stuff was prior to Elizabethan time. Even though the guillatine was the method of execution, at the time, it was the quickest execution method. And there were valid reasons for execution just as there is now.
Now Elizabeth’s father was definitely an “off with their heads” kinda guy. But Elizabeth wasn’t nearly as insane as her father and the example her crazy sister tempered her justice as she didn’t want to be perceived as Mary was. At least Elizabeth didn’t order Catholics to be burned at the stake!
......Even though the guillatine was the method of execution, at the time, it was the quickest execution method.....
This statement is about two hundred years off the mark. An ax was the Elizabethan head chopper.
The guillotine was the super efficient and painless tool of the French Revolution.
You are correct, I apologize. The ax was the method and I was horribly mistaken which is quite embarrassing since I do study history.
I will blame this on 7am Freeping before the complete cup of coffee. ;o)
Yet, Elizabeth's mum requested and was granted a sword rather than the ax. Some say that it's being granted by Henry was proof that he still cared.
A single swing of the sword was a cleaner way out than an ax, which took more than a single swing at times.
Some of us are becoming able to blame age :)
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