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  • Biblia Sacra
    Biblia Sacra is an electronic bibliography, allowing its users to request information (text and reproductions) on bibles printed in the Netherlands and Belgium. Biblia Sacra provides extensive descriptions and numerous reproductions of typographical and iconographical material. It gives information on both the editions and the individual copies, such as provenance and binding. Other important data in the bibliography covers bible illustrations, printing types, prefaces, translators, printers, and previous owners. Biblia Sacra offers simple and extensive search methods to help each user.
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  • Engravings from 1791 Folio Bible Printed by Isaiah Thomas in Worcester, MA.
    Benjamin Franklin called Isaiah Thomas the "Baskerville of America." Thomas was one of the most notable Bible publishers in the early Republic. He began his business in Boston, where he was publisher of the newspaper Massachusetts Spy. During the Revolution, he moved his business to Boston. In planning his 1791 folio Bible, Thomas made a special effort to print a correct text for His Bible and examined over thirty copies of the King James Version, printed at different times by different publishers, to determine the best text. Several leading clergymen also examined his text.
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  • The Bible in Pictures
    Lucas Cranach’s incendiary illustrations for Luther's 1534 Bible: the book that changed Christianity forever Martin Luther's Bible, published in 1534, was the first complete German Bible and a pivotal event in the history of Christianity. Luther's revolutionary translation, modern in vernacular and interpretation, made the Bible accessible to laypeople, fueled anger and revulsion toward Rome and the Papacy, and begat a new religion: Protestantism. The most desirable copies came with shockingly graphic and politically-charged illustrations, such as those depicting the Whore of Babylon riding a seven-headed beast while wearing the Papal crown, or the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse led by a Turkish soldier.
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  • Vivarium
    Collection of book illustrations, mostly from Bibles.
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