1583 Grand Noble Geneva Bible Page - An Old Testament Leaf - Select Your Passage

[The Bible. Translated According to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best Translations in Divers Languages. With most profitable Annotations…]

NOTE

The 1583 Grand Noble is the largest and most popular of the almost 200 editions of the Geneva Bible. The typography of this edition is quite pleasing, and the book boasts wide margins and attractive black letter text.

The most widely circulated of the early English versions was the Geneva Bible.

A devout Roman Catholic, Queen Mary, took the throne on July 19, 1553. ‘Bloody’ Mary sought to return England to Catholicism and was not afraid to prosecute protestants in order to do it. An exodus to the continent resulted in a small settlement of exiles in Geneva, Switzerland.

William Whittingham and a group of fine scholars translated the text from the original Hebrew and Greek resulting in the Geneva Bible. Boasting wide margins, clear Roman font, and a smaller quarto size, the Geneva Bible was well received by the people.

With an average print run of 2,000 copies per edition, over 280,000 Geneva Bibles were printed between 1560 and 1644. Its phrases found an echo in Scripture quotations from Shakespeare to Bunyan, and it journeyed to America aboard the Mayflower.

According to Dr. David Daniell, once printing in England could begin in 1576, the Geneva Bible “became at once the Bible of the English people.” The first Bible with verse divisions and marginal notes to aid the reader, it was “intended to illuminate at every point. The influence of the Geneva Bible is incalculable.”

SHIPPING

All of our Grand Noble Geneva Bible leaves will be protected between sheets of cardboard and shipped via USPS Grand Advantage.

REFERENCES

Herbert 179; ESTC S42.

Leaf Availability

Old Testament

Hosea 10:1 – 13:13 (three woodcut initials)

Amos 1:6 – 4:10 (three woodcut initials)
Amos 4:11 – 7:9 (three woodcut initials)
Amos 7:10 – Obadiah 1:3 (three woodcut initials)

Obadiah 1:4 – Jonah 2:6 (three woodcut initials)

Habakkuk 1:1 – 3:10 (three woodcut initials)

Haggai 2:11 – Zechariah 2:5 (two woodcut initials)

Zechariah 2:6 – 6:1 (four woodcut initials
Zechariah 6:2 – 8:19 (two woodcut initials)
Zechariah 9:8 – 11:7 (two woodcut initials)
Zechariah 11:8 – 14:10 (three woodcut initials)
Zechariah 14:11 – Malachi 2:10 (two woodcut initials)