| Show BIBLES WITH QUEER NAMES Strange Editions of the Scriptures Recently Exhibited in London An interesting collection of Bibles was recently exhibited in London which comprised copies of all the editions that because of peculiar errors of the printers or from some other reason have been known by strange names Among the Bible on exhibition were the folbwing THE GUTINBSRO BIBLK Tho Earliest Boak Known Print from Movable Metal Type is the Latin Bible Issud by Gutenberg at Jenlz AD 1450 CHE Boa BIBLE Was so Called from lie Kenderinc of Psalms e 5 Afraid of JBugi by Night Our Present Version reads Tror by NighL AD 151 res THE BBZECHKS BIBLE The Geneva Version i that Popularly Known as the Breeches Bible from its Rendering of Genesis H 7 C Making Themselves Breeches out of Fi > rlowes This translation of the Scriptures tho Ue cult of the Labors of the English Exiles Ex-iles at Gneya was the English Family Bible During the of Bblo tUf tUG Reign Ul Queen Elizabeth and till SuDpUUed by the Present Authorized Version of King IfiTnna T TIE PtACEMAKERs BIBLE From 1 remarkable Typographical Error which occurs in Matthew Y 0 t tiliased are the Placemakers instead of Peacemakers Peace-makers AD 1502 THE TBEACLK BIBLE From it Rendering Jgrmiah viii 2 l There no Treacle instead of Balm in Gilead AD 1503 THE Rosnr BIBLZ From the tame Text but ranslatoi Rosin in the Dual version AD ICOt THE HE AND SHE BIBLIS From the Respective Renderings of Ruth iiL 15 one Holding thit She wont into tbe City The other has it that I He went I AD 1611 THE WICKKD BIBLV From the Fact that the Negative has been Left Out of tbe Seventh Commandment Eiodus xx 14 For Which the Printer was Fined 0 AD 1631 TUB THUMB BIBLE Being One Inch Square and Half an Inch Thick was Published at Aberdeen AD 1070 HE VINEOAK BIBLE So named from the Headline of the 20th Chapter of Luke which reads as The Parable of the Vinegar instead of the Vineyard AD 1717 TIE PRINTERS BIBLE We are told by Cotton Mather that in a Bible printed prior to 1702 a blundering Typographer made King David exclaim ex-claim that Printers instead of Prin ces Persecuted him without a cauie1 See Psalm cxix 161 Tm MURDERERS BIBLESO called from an Error in the Sixteenth vane of the Epistle of Jude the word Murderers being used instead of Murmurers AD 1801 Tine CAXTOU MEMORIAL BIBLE Wholly Printed and Bound in 12 hours AD 1877 but only lOt copies ttruok off |
