Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-12-11 | Page 24 | Baker 'U' Has Collection of Rare Bibles

BAKER BAKEE IT U ij HASi HAS i COLLECTION OPi OF OP i 1 RARE BIBLES BALDWIN Kan Dec 11 AP CAP Some of ot the rarest Bibles In ex existence existence ex ex- exIstence are contained in a collection collection collection tion to be placed on display here hereby hereby hereby by Baker university The collection was willed to the institution by the the late rate Bishop William William Wil Wil- liam lam A. A Quayle of f the Methodist Episcopal church a graduate and at one time president of Baker I IMore I IMore IMore More than rare editions rangIng rangIng ranging rang- rang Ing in size from a very minute copy copy of the Synagogue Roll RolI or Tora which is made from the skins of I thirty-seven thirty animals and is feet I In Jn length are in the group 1 The oldest Bible is a Latin manuscript manuscript manu manu- script of 1225 In the bishops bishop's catalogue catalogue catalogue cat cat- he referred to to-it to it as a piece of Illumination and chirography and added that he lIe did not recall having seen its superior In in the British museum This rare volume Is bound in French sliver silver some hundreds of years old It is illuminated in gold cardinal and blue and Is made on abortive parchment Another manuscript is of the same century and also Is a a. rare specimen on uterine parchment The psalms have special The entire Pentateuch is contained contained contained con con- in the Synagogue Roll which is undated and without vowel points The oldest printed Bible in the the collection the came from the press in 1469 just thirteen thirteen thirteen thir thir- teen years after the first printed Bible of Strasburg was the printer of the volume two-volume edition edl edi edi edition tion of f which only the latter is Inthe in inthe inthe the collection The Quayle group also contains a Sacra Latina printed in 1472 of which there are no more than Ulan five tive copies in existence This one Is pis in inathe the athe the original binding of thick wooden boards covered with calf Another is the of ot which the bishop said It is the noblest Bible I have ever set my eyes yes on and much superior in beauty and sumptuousness In execution to the Gutenberg Bible One of the finest sets is a nine nine- volume e Bible with a. a a 4 curious W j commentary folio follo size bound In in inI I original vellum and dated 1669 It I was once owned by the Carmelite Friars and still eUll contains their bookplate 1 A Bible bearing the date of 1656 once belonged to Robert Browning Browning- and carries the writers writer's autograph In this group also is Sou Southy's thys thy's Bible and the family Bible of Robert Louis Stevenson Looking over the collection the linguist can run the full gamut for forthe or orthe orthe the Bibles are printed in Hebr Hebrew w Latin German English Persian Chinese Italian Italian- Dutch Welch elch Manx Turkish and a. a rare Arabic I I