ANTIQUE 1611 KING JAMES HE HOLY BIBLE TITLE PAGE Leaf

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EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE GENUINE, ORIGINAL 1611 KING JAMES "HE" PULPIT FOLIO BIBLE NEW TESTAMENT TITLE PAGE!

"THE NEWE TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST" London: Printed by Robert Barker, printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1611. First Edition, First Issue! Genuine Original 398 Year Old New Testament Title Page out of an Original 1611 King James "HE" Pulpit Bible! This Original Title Page Measures 15.25" High, by 10" Wide, small nickel sized chunk out of Left Inner BLANK margin but hidden by Beautiful Double Matting with Text Block below with information about the Original Title Page! This Original N.T. Title page came out of an Original 1611 "He" Bible that a "leaf dealer" had broken apart in order to "sell leaves." NOTE: I Do Not believe in selling "leaves" and in fact I RESTORE Bibles instead of selling "leaves." However, I've had this Original Title Page for 10 years now hoping to use it in the restoration of an Original HE Bible, but the Three 1611's that I have all have their New Testament Title Pages already Intact so this is an extra Original One! This is NOT a "reprint" and is NOT a "facsimile" and is NOT a "Later printing" THIS 1611 NEW TESTAMENT TITLE PAGE IS 398 YEARS OLD AND IS GENUINE, ORIGINAL AND AUTHENTIC! A Very Very Rare Offering Indeed!

HISTORY OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE: When Prince James VI of Scotland became King James Ist of England upon the death of Queen Elizabeth I, the Protestant clergy approached the new King in 1604 and announced their desire for a new translation to replace the Bishop's Bible first printed in 1568. Discontent with earlier versions of the Bible in English had resulted in a conference at Hampton Court in 1604, at which the Puritan party, led by John Reynolds, convinced King James that a new Protestant translation was required. But, emblematic of the inclusiveness of approach that characterized the production of the "King James," the committee found that despite their avowedly Protestant mission, certain phrases and wordings even in the first Catholic New Testament in English (Rheims, 1585) were worthy of inclusion—as well as borrowings from the Tyndale, Wycliffite, Matthew's, Great, Geneva, and Bishops' Bibles (etc.).

About 90 per cent of Tyndale's work and a great part of Coverdale's, survive in the Authorized Version. The Geneva and Rhemes versions, in their different ways, brought a new accuracy to the translation. The Geneva provided pithy phrases, while Latinisms from Rhemes contributed to the majesty of the prose. It has been compared to a great English Cathedral: not the work of one period alone, but due to the devoted creation of several generations.

It was indeed fortunate that this Majestic translation was achieved during one of the most creative periods in English literature, when the English language as we know it was growing out of medieval usage into prose that rolls like a great cathedral organ played by a "Master- Musician". Macaulay said: 'If everything else in our language should perish it [the Authorized King James Version] alone would suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.'

The translators knew that the Geneva Version had won the hearts of the people because of its excellent scholarship, accuracy, and exhaustive commentary. However, they did not want the controversial marginal notes (proclaiming the Pope an Anti-Christ, etc., etc.) Essentially, the leaders of the church desired a Bible for the people, with Scriptural references only for word clarification when multiple meanings were possible.

This "translation to end all translations" (the King James Version) was the result of the combined effort of about fifty scholars. They took into consideration: The Tyndale New Testament, The Coverdale Bible, The Matthews Bible, The Great Bible, The Geneva Bible, and even the Rheims New Testament. The great revision of the Bishop's Bible, resulting in the new King James translation, had begun.

From 1605 to 1606 the scholars engaged in private research. From 1607 to 1609 the work was assembled. In 1610 the work went to press, and in 1611 the First-Edition, first issue of "The King James Bible" came off the printing press.

The First Edition of the "King James Bible" (The Authorized Version) was printed in a black-letter "Gothic" font, in a double-column 59 line format of the era's style, and with a generous use of woodcut illustrated initials as well as head & tail-pieces.

There were two distinct issues of the 1611 First Edition printing, one called The Great "He" Bible for a mistake in the last line of Ruth 3:15 (...and "HE" went into the Citie), and the other one called The Great "She" Bible with the correct (... and "SHE" went into the Citie) both having 59 lines and both printed and issued in 1611. There has long been confusion (due to long lost printing records) as to which of the 1611 First Edition King James Bibles were printed or issued first, the 1611 "HE" Bible or the 1611"SHE" Bible, but most Scholars have now come to agree that the 1611 First Edition "He" and the 1611 First Edition "She" King James Bibles were probably printed at the SAME TIME on two different presses. Later, in 1613 leftover 59 line leaves from the 1611’s were RE-ISSUED with a 1613 General Title page (Old Testament Title Page) and their original 1611 New Testament Title page. These GREAT SHE Bibles were issued in both 1611 and later leftover leaves / Bibles were reissued in 1613. Additionally in 1613 a corrected Second Edition having smaller type and 72 lines (as opposed to the two 1611s with 59 lines) were printed after the final supply of 1611 First Edition 59 line leaves had been exhausted. The publication of the later 72 line 1613 is often called the "True She" Bible, having smaller type and 72 lines instead of the 59 lines per page of the 1611 He and She First Editions. In other words, ("Great He" 59 line Bible = 1611/1611) ("Great She" 59 line Bible = 1611/1611 and 1613/1611) and then in 1613 the ("True She" 72 line Bible = 1613/1613). The publication of the later 72 line 1613/1613 "True She" Bible (not to be confused with the 1611 "Great She" 59 line Bible) was delayed by Barker for reasons that remain unclear.

A typographical error in the King James "He" Bible in Ruth 3:15 rendered the pronoun "He" instead of the correct "She" in the last sentence of that verse. (…"and "He" went into the citie, instead of the correct "She"in the last sentence of Ruth 3:15. This caused the misprinted King James Bibles to be known by collectors as "Great He" Bibles", and the correctly printed 1611 First Editions to be known as "Great She" Bibles. Both the "He" and the "She" Bibles of 1611 had 59 lines. The 1613 Second Edition 72 line is known as the "True She" Bible. (GREAT HE OF 1611 with 59 lines, GREAT SHE OF 1611 with 59 lines, and TRUE SHE OF 1613 with 72 lines).

*Originally, the King James Bible was printed with All 80 Books (including the Apocrypha which was Officially Removed in 1885) Leaving Only 66 Books.

The King James Version of the Bible became the Bible of the English people. It became the most printed book in the history of the world. Incontestably the King James Version of the Bible has been one of the most influential books ever published, not only as a religious work, but also as a work of English literature. As the noted (now, late) Alan G. Thomas wrote in his Great Books and Great Collectors (p. 110), "No book has had greater influence on the English language or on the English character."

As another influential work notes, "It [the King James Bible] has been described as `the only literary masterpiece ever to have been produced by a committee,' and was the work of nearly fifty translators, organized in six groups"

No other book has had greater influence on the English language or, on the English character. For the next three hundred years the majority of English men and women heard the King James Bible read aloud Sabbath after Sabbath and, until recently, a very large proportion of people read the Bible with steady, life-long devotion in their own homes. This great quality was carried to America, where its influence has hardly been less!

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