1698 1ed Old English Holy BIBLE Heptateuch Anglo-Saxon Old Testament Thwaites

1698 1^ed Old English Holy BIBLE Heptateuch Anglo-Saxon Old Testament Thwaites

An absolutely stunning and highly rare, 17^th-century printing of an Anglo-Saxon Bible!

Known as ‘The Heptateuch’, which is the Pentateuch plus the books of Joshua and Judges, this Bible was collected and edited by Edward Thwaites. Thwaites, a prominent Oxford scholar, published this Bible and curiously included non-canonical books in this work including the Gospel of Nicodemus and a short fragment of the poem of ‘Judith’. These books were translated into Anglo-Saxon (or Old English) by Aelfric of Eynsham – overall, a very rare and desirable printing of the Bible.

This first edition was published 1698 Oxford and features a stunning, hand-colored frontispiece, as well as in-text vignettes and illustrated initials by Michael Burghers. This book is also believed to be one of the first pieces of Anglo-Saxon poetry to be published by an English press.

Item number: #10868

Price: $1950

THWAITES, Edward

Heptateuchus, Liber Job, et Evangelium Nicodemi, Anglo-Saxonice.  Historiæ Judith fragmentum, Dano-Saxonice

Oxoniae: Theatrum Sheldonianum, 1698. First edition.

Details:

• Collation:
  • [8], 168, 32
• References: Darlow & Moule 1606; Wing B 2198; ESTC R 4371;
• Provenance: Handwritten
  • Collegium Din Johannis Vaptistae in Academia Oxoniense, An. Dom. MCMLIX
  • Colonel Lee of Headington
• Language: Anglo-Saxon [Old English]
• Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
• Size: ~9in X 6in (23cm x 15cm)
• Very rare, valuable, and desirable

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