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SIR PATRICK HUME'S PERSONAL GIANT FOLIO 1640 LEATHER GENEVA OR "BREECHES" ENGLISH HOLY BIBLE WITH HIS PERSONAL BOOKPLATE AND FANCY LEATHER BINDING! PLUS WOODCUT MAPS AND FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS!
[Geneva Version][Puritan][Sir Patrick Hume's Bible] "THE BIBLE, THAT IS THE HOLY SCRIPTURES CONTAINED IN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT" Amsterdam: Printed by Thomas Stafford, 1640. Large Leather Folio measuring 14.25" x 9.25" (36 x 24cm). Bound in a 1700's Elegant Gilt Leather Binding with large Stamped Lozenge in center of both boards, also Gold decorated boarders around both boards and in Compartments on Gilt Spine! Early rehinging to front board. Binding is Tight and Sound and quite Spectacular! WITH SEVERAL WOODCUT MAPS AND FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS! Woodcut Illustrated General Title Page Dated 1640, New Testament Title Page also Dated 1640! Contains the Complete Old and New Testaments with 2 tables in the rear plus an Admonition to the Christian reader AGAINST the books called "Apocrypha". A few marginal and corner repairs, mainly to the first few pages but expertly and well done. 100% COMPLETE! THE PAGES ARE CLEAN, CRISP AND FRESH WITH ORIGINAL WIDE MARGINS! OWNED BY SIR PATRICK HUME WITH HIS PERSONAL BOOKPLATE ATTACHED TO THE REAR OF THE GENERAL TITLE PAGE! A ONE OF A KIND MUSEUM PIECE AND SCOTTISH NATIONAL TREASURE!!!
SIR PATRICK HUME, 1st Earl of Marchmont (1641-1724) was a Scottish statesman, born at Polwarth, Berwickshire.
He was raised as a strict Presbyterian, and after a term of law study at Paris he represented his native country in Parliament, where he at once took a foremost place as defender of the Covenanters. He went so far as to bring imprisonment upon himself, and on being freed was suspected of complication in the Rye House Plot, so that he was forced to remain in hiding until he could escape in disguise to the Continent. There he joined the Duke of Argyll and embarked with him on the unsuccessful expedition to Scotland (1685). Hume became a refugee with a price set upon his head; but he once more escaped abroad and lived at Utrecht under the name "Dr. Wallace," professing to be a Scottish surgeon. He returned with William of Orange at the Revolution of 1688.
With estates restored, he was now a Scottish peer, Lord Polwarth; was made Lord Chancellor in 1696 and Earl of Marchmont in 1697. He strenuously opposed in Parliament the claims of the Old Pretender to the crown and voted for the union of Scotland with England, though he was not above the suspicion of having received a reward for so doing. Too dogmatic to be popular, he did not hold office in the United Kingdom till the reign of George I, when he was given some minor charges, but shortly retired.
HISTORY OF THE GENEVA OR "BREECHES" HOLY BIBLE: The Geneva Bible was a translation of the Bible introduced by the Protestant expatriates who fed England during the repressive regime of Queen Mary who became known to history as "Bloody Mary." Wanting a translation of the Bible to instruct their children they produced this translation known as the Geneva Bible for the location which produced it. It is often also called the "Breeches" Bible for the fact that Adam and Eve made "breeches" after eating the apple. It is sometimes also called the "Pilgrim's" Bible since it was the translation taken to the New World by the Pilgrims. Despite the existence of the Bishop's Bible, the Geneva Bible became the main Bible in use in England until it was replaced by the King James Bible in 1611. This translation of the Bible contains extensive commentary in the margins and so was and is both a Bible and a Bible Commentary in a single volume.
The reign of Queen Mary (a.k.a. "Bloody Mary") was an obstacle to the printing of the Bible in English. She was possessed in her quest to return England to the Roman Church. In 1555, John Rogers ("Thomas Matthew") and Thomas Cranmer were both burned at the stake. Mary went on to burn reformers at the stake by the hundreds for the "crime" of being a Protestant. This era was known as the Marian Exile, and the refugees fled from England with little hope of ever seeing their home or friends again.
In the 1550's, the Church at Geneva, Switzerland, was very sympathetic to the reformer refugees and was one of only a few safe havens for a desperate people. Many of them met in Geneva, led by Myles Coverdale and John Foxe (publisher of the famous Foxe's Book of Martyrs, which is to this day the only exhaustive reference work on the persecution and martyrdom of Early Christians and Protestants from the first century up to the mid-16th century), as well as Thomas Sampson and William Whittingham. There, with the protection of John Calvin and John Knox, the Church of Geneva determined to produce a Bible that would educate their families while they continued in exile.
The New Testament was completed in 1557, and the complete Bible was first published in 1560. It became known as the Geneva Bible due to a passage in Genesis (3:7) desribing the clothing that Adam and Eve made for themselves upon expulsion from the Garden of Eden as "Breeches" (an antiquated form of "Britches"), some people referred to the Geneva Bible as the "Breeches" Bible.
The Geneva Bible was the first Bible to add verses to the chapters, so that referencing specific passages would be easier. Every chapter was also accompanied by extensive marginal notes and references so thorough and complete that the Geneva Bible is also considered the first English "Study Bible". William Shakespeare quotes thousands of times in his plays from the Geneva translation of the Bible. The Geneva Bible became the Bible of choice for over 100 years of English speaking Christians. Between 1560 and 1644 at least 144 editions of this Bible were published. Examination of the 1611 King James Bible shows clearly that its translators were influenced much more by the Geneva Bible, than by any other source. The Geneva Bible itself retains over 90% of William Tyndale's original English translation. The Geneva Bible in fact, remained more popular than the King James Version until decades after its original release in 1611! The Geneva Bible holds the honor of being the first Bible taken to America and the Bible of the Puritans and the Pilgrims.
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