1845 HORAE BIBLICAE HISTORY OF BIBLES by CHARLES BUTLER

1845.

Above is the complete first work title page.

Listing includes two copies of the above title by Charles Butler, which is the first part only of two, first published in 1797.

Also included is one copy of the Student’s Guide to Versions of the New Testament and of Concordances, by H. Bennett 1950.

BIOGRAPHY:

Charles Butler (1750-1832), English Roman Catholic lawyer, writer, editor, biographer, historian, bencher of Lincoln’s Inn, works total around fifty volumes, one directed at Southey was controversial.

Herbert Victor Dennett (1893-c. 1960), English author, wrote Christian Communications in a Changing World, The Customer's Point of View, How to Make Business Letters Pay, and Modern Retail Stock Control.

CONTENTS:

Horæ Biblicæ (2 copies)

Introduction

1. Dialects of the Hebrew Language

2. Septuagint Version

3. New Testament — Peculiarities of Its Style

4. Biblical Literature of the Text, during the Middle Ages

5. Exertions of the Jews to Preserve the Literal Integrity of the Text

6. Vowel Points

7. Historical Minutes respecting the State of the Jews

8. Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Editions of the Sacred Text; — Doctor Kennicott and Dr. Rossi’s Collations

9. Greek Manuscripts

10. Polyglott Editions

11. Printed Editions of the Greek New Testament

12. Versions of the New Testament into Modern Greek

13. Oriental Versions

14. Latin Vulgate

15. English Translations

16. Division

17. Enquiry whether the various readings raise any argument against the claim of the Sacred Text to Authenticity, or Divine Inspiration

18. Account of the Principal Works consulted by the Writer in framing the compilation

Student’s Guide to Versions of the New Testament, etc. (one copy)

Editor’s Note

Introduction

1. The Authorised Version (1611)

2. The Revised Version (1881)

3. The Revised Standard Version (1946)

4. The New Testament — A New Translation, Dr. J. Moffatt (1913)

5. The New Testament in Modern Speech, Dr. R. Weymouth (1902)

6. The 20th Century New Testament (1898)

7. The Letchworth Version of the New Testament (1948)

8. The New Testament in English, R. Knox (1945)

9. The New Testament in Basic English (1941)

10. The New Testament — A New Translation, J. N. Darby (1881)

11. Young’s Literal Translation (1862)

12. The Four Gospels, C. C. Torrey (1933)

13. Letters to Young Churches, J. Phillips (1947)

14. The New Testament Letters Prefaced and Paraphrased, Dr. J. Wand (1944)

15. The English-Greek New Testament, Newberry

16. The Scofield Reference Bible

17. The Englishman’s Greek Translation, Bagster

Brief List of Other Versions Examined (list of 14)

Guide to Concordances of the Bible

Cruden’s Concordance

The Problem of Translation

Young’s Analytical Concordance (1879)

Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance

The Englishman’s Greek Concordance of the New Testament

A Critical Lexicon and Concordance of the English and Greek New Testament (1895)

The Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, W. E. Vine (1940)

Summary

BOOK DESCRIPTIONS:

8” x 5” x 0.75”

9 ounces, 254 pages

viii + 108 (x2 copies)

21 + [1]

Horæ Biblicæ (2 copies)

Softbound with covers that are attached (except second copy lacking front cover) and chipped at edges. Bindings are tight, no loose, missing, bent or torn pages; page edges are deckled fore and tail, some leaves are uncut. Leaves have no significant foxing, fading or offset.

Student’s Guide to Versions of the New Testament, etc. (one copy)

Softbound with covers that are well attached, sunned and moderately rubbed. Binding is tight, no loose, missing, or torn pages; slight bump crease in top fore corner area. Leaves have no foxing, fading or offset.

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This set of books is from the collection of Donald Hawthorne, antiquarian bookseller for over 60 years.