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Manifold greatness : the making of the King James Bible / edited by Helen Moore and Julian Reid.

Title
Manifold greatness : the making of the King James Bible / edited by Helen Moore and Julian Reid.
Publication
Oxford [England] : Bodleian Library, 2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Moore, Helen (Helen Dale)
  • Reid, Julian
  • Bodleian Library
  • Folger Shakespeare Library
Description
208 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), facsims.; 25 cm.
Summary
This books tells the fascinating story of the creation and immediate afterlife of the first and most popular Bible in English. With over 60 illustrations of manuscripts, artifacts, and archival material, this beautiful book presents essays by leading scholars, including Diarmaid MacCulloch.
Alternative Title
Making of the King James Bible
Subject
  • Bodleian Library > Exhibitions
  • Folger Shakespeare Library > Exhibitions
  • Bible. > Authorized
  • Bible. > History
  • Bible > History > England > 17th century
  • 1600-1699
Genre/Form
  • exhibition catalogs.
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • History
  • Catalogues d'exposition.
Note
  • Published on the occasion of two exhibitions, held in 2011 at the Bodleian Library and the Folger Shakespeare Library respectively, celebrating the 400th centenary of the publication of the King James Bible.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-205) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Before the King James Bible / Diarmaid MacCulloch and Elizabeth Solopova -- Origins of the Project / Judith Maltby and Helen Moore -- The Oxford translators / Julian Reid -- Materials and methods / Gareth Lloyd Jones, Helen Moore and Julian Reid -- The 1611 King James Bible and its cultural politics / Hannibal Hamlin, Judith Maltby and Helen Moore -- Afterlives of the King James Bible, 1611-1769 / Peter McCullough and Valentine Cunningham -- The King James Bible in America / Hannibal Hamlin -- The lives of the early English Bibles : treasures from the Folger Shakespeare Library / Steven K. Galbraith -- The translators of the King James Bible.
ISBN
  • 9781851243495
  • 1851243496
OCLC
670480386
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library