“Not exactly. Much of the KJV was based on the DRV.”
Not hardly. 90% of the NT came from Tyndale. The versions used by the KJV didn’t include the DRV, although an individual MIGHT have compared it.
“I’m forunate enough to have facsimile copies of the original DRV”
Cool. I find it hard to read English from that era, particularly in facsimile. The f, s, etc drive me nuts! Shoot, I have a facsimile copy of Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense”, and I can’t read it without stuttering and lisping for an hour!
Still...
“1 Though I spake with the tonges of me and angels and yet had no love I were eve as soundinge brasse: or as a tynklynge Cymball.
2 And though I coulde prophesy and vnderstode all secretes and all knowledge: yee yf I had all fayth so that I coulde move moutayns oute of ther places and yet had no love I were nothynge.
3 And though I bestowed all my gooddes to fede ye poore and though I gave my body even that I burned and yet had no love it profeteth me nothinge.
4 Love suffreth longe and is corteous. Love envieth not. Love doth not frowardly swelleth not dealeth
5 not dishonestly seketh not her awne is not provoked to anger thynketh not evyll
6 reioyseth not in iniquite: but reioyseth in ye trueth
7 suffreth all thynge beleveth all thynges hopeth all thynges endureth in all thynges.”
http://wesley.nnu.edu/biblical_studies/tyndale/1co.txt
Makes my eyes bug out, but beautiful in its own way.
You wrote:
“Not hardly. 90% of the NT came from Tyndale.”
That still leaves plenty. Don’t forget the 1611 AV was DRAMATICALLY changed in 1769.
You might want to check this scholar’s work: http://books.google.com/books?id=FoEY0B59zq8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=carelton+the+part+of+the+rheims+in+the+making+of+the+english+bible&source=bl&ots=xg8vRo90gO&sig=gS3Sq3b4M9ppyeMlYAl8pVUhzt8&hl=en&ei=xKhjS5WoOIHWtgPOisGdAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false
The great Bible translator, Fr. Ronald Knox, noted some of the KJV oddities here: http://www.americancatholicpress.org/Msgr_Knox_Bible_Translation.html