Skip to Main Content
University of Minnesota

Kathryn A. Martin Library

Ramseyer-Northern Bible Society Collection

This is the story, background, and presentation detailing the Ramseyer-Northern Bible Society Collection

Bible in Englihs, pre-1600 and Douai

This is a selection of the Bibles in the collection.  There are more in that can be found in the the Kathryn A Martin Library catalog!

Anglo-Saxon

Evangelium Secundum Mattheum. The Gospel of Saint Matthew in West-Saxon edited from the manuscripts by James Wilson Bright., 1904 Location: 327A
Evangelium Secundum Markum. The Gospel of Saint Mark in West-Saxon edited from the manuscripts by James Wilson Bright., 1905 Location: 327B
Evangelium Secundum Lukam. The Gospel of Saint Luke in West-Saxon edited from the manuscripts by James Wilson Bright., 1906 Location: 327C

Evangelium Secundum Iohannem. The Gospel of Saint John in West-Saxon edited from the manuscripts by James Wilson Bright., 1904

Location: 327D
New York, AMS Press, 1972, originally published by Boston, D. C. Heath. 4 vols.NUC 56:NBi 0053749, 0055215, 0056168 and 0057156.

 

Wycliffe

The New Testament in English/Translated by/John Wycliffe MCCCLXXXII/Revised by/
John Purvey MCCCLXXXVIII/Sexcentenary Edition/First Exact Facsimile of the
First English Bible/with an Introduction by/Donald L. Brake/From Rawlinson 259
MSS./in the Bodleian Library , Oxford, England.
Portland OR, International Bible Publications, 1986.
Location: 774
The New Testament in English translated by John Wycliffe circa Mccclxxx. Now first printed from a contemporary Manuscript formerly in the Monastery of Sion
Herbert 1868.
Location: 1453
The English Haxapla exhibiting The Six Important English Translations of the New Testament Scriptures, Wiclif ... Tyndale... Cranmer ... Geneva ... Anglo-Rhemish ... Authorized. The Original Greek Text after Scholz.
London, Samuel Bagster and Sons, Paternoster Row, 1841. [Reprint by Lazarus Ministry Press, 1999]
1332p. 28cm.
Contains also: An Historical Account of the English Versions of the Scriptures.
Location: 1482

 

Matthew's

Tindale's Triumph, John Roger's Monument. The Newe Testament of the Matthew's
Bible 1537 a.d. .
.. Modern spelling, punctuation and introduction by John Wesley Sawyer.
Houston, Texas, John Wesley Sawyer, 1989.
xiv, [329]p. front. illus. 22cm. (The Martyrs Bible Series, Volume Two)
Location: 1482

 

Tyndale

The first New Testament printed in the English Language (1525 or 1526) translated from the Greek by William Tyndale reproduced in facsimile with an introduction by Francis Fry.
Bristol, Printed for the Editor, 1862.
28p., 353 folios, 331 leaves. illus. 20cm.

Location: 82

Tyndale's Old Testament Being the Pentateuch of 1530, Joshua to 2 Chronicles of 1537, and Jonah. ... In a modern-spelling edition and with an introduction by David
Daniell.

New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1992.
xxxvii, 643p. 27cm.
Location: 1563

 

Great Bible

The Byble in Englysh, that is to saye the content of all the holy scrypture, both of the olde and newe Testament with a Prologe thereinto, made by the reverende father in God, Thomas archebyshop of Cantorbury. This is the Byble appoynted to the vse of ye churches.
Printed by Edwarde Whitchurch, Finished the xxviii. daye of Maye, Anno Domini
MDXLI.
 
Location: F83
 

 

Douai

The Holy Bible Translated from the Latin Vulgat: Diligently compared With the Hebrew, Greek, and other Editions in divers Languages. And first published by the English College at Doway, Anno 1609. Newly revised, and corrected, according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. With Annotations for clearing up the principal Difficulties of Holy Writ.
[Dublin?], Printed in the Year, 1750.

This is the rare Second Edition, revised by Challoner: Herbert 1090, NUC
53:NBi0003428. Cf. Pope "English Versions of the Bible", page 356.
D & M 825.

Location: 1148A/C

The Holy Bible, Translated from the Latin Vulgate ...
New York, D. & J. Sadlier, nd [Taken from NT tp]
792, 222p. illus. 29cm.
Cf Hills 1916. Tp and front matter through page 4 lacking.
NUC 53:NBi 0006823.
Location: 137
The Holy Bible translated from the Latin Vulgate: ... Revised with Annotations by the Right Rev. R. Challoner. Together with References, and an Historical and Chronological Index.
New York, Thomas Kelly, 1877.
Reprint (?) of 1873 ed. Cf. Hills 1885 & NUC 53:NBi 0006748.
Location: 332
The Holy Bible translated from the Latin Vulgate ...
New York, P. J. Kenedy, 1914.
Reprint of 1894 Benziger ed.? Cf. Hills 2101 and NUC 53:NBi 0007386
Location: 1368
The Holy Bible translated from the Latin Vulgate ... with Annotations, References, and an Historical and Chronological Index.
Baltimore, New York, John Murphy Company, 1914.
1086, 306p. maps. 20cm.
Hills 2217. NUC 53:NBi 0007796.
Location: 406
The Holy Bible. Translated from the Latin Vulgate and diligently compared with the Hebrew, Greek and other editions in divers languages. ... With Notes by Bishop Challoner and also the Encyclical Letter "On the Study of the Holy Scriptures."
New York, The Douay Bible House, 1941.
xxx, 964, 267, [12]p. maps. 21cm.
Hills 2394. NUC 53:NBi 0008165.
Location: 405
The Holy Bible translated from the Latin Vulgate, ... with annotations, references and an historical and chronological index. A New Edition.
London, Burnes & Oates, nd.
842, 242p. 24cm.
Location: 272