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Classic Works of Christianity Set
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Price: $104.95
Sale Price: $78.71
In this set enjoy four of the classic works of Christianity at your finger tips. Explore The Gutenberg Bible, John Merbecke'sThe Book of Common Praier Noted, Hans Holbein's Incones Historiarum Veteris Testamenti, and the Whycliffite Manuscript of The New Testament as they were intended to be seen. Enjoy the ability to view these classic works of Christianity in their original format from the comfort of your own home.
The Gutenberg Bible
The Library of Congress Gutenberg Bible is one of three perfect examples printed on vellum that are known today.
Features:
-Commentary by Janet Ing Freeman, Gutenberg scholar
-Searchable, cross-linked English translation of the Latin text, edited by David Sullivan for Octavo
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The Book of Common Praier Noted:
The Book of Common Prayer, first published in 1549, united Thomas Cranmer’s historic sense of the growth of the Christian liturgy with a poetic instinct for the sound and meaning of English prose. In the turbulent years that followed Henry VIII’s severance of the Anglican Church from Rome, Cranmer pursued a median course between tradition and reform. The first edition was a fine blackletter folio; it was completed by John Merbecke’s music in The Booke of Common Praier Noted in 1550.
Features:
-Commentary by Colin Franklin, former publisher, now independent bookseller and writer
-Supplementary essay on music printing
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Incones Historiarum Veteris Testamenti
Holbein’s woodcuts of the Old Testament, like Botticelli’s illustrations for the Divine Comedy (1481), represent one of the all-too-rare conjunctions of a great draftsman with a great work of literature.
Features:
-Commentary by Erika Michael, a northern European Renaissance scholar
-Searchable, cross-linked English translation of the French and Latin text
-Supplementary essay on woodcuts
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Whycliffite Manuscript of The New Testament
The Wycliffite Manuscript is a fifteenth-century Middle English translation – from the Latin – of the New Testament, made by Lollard (lay preacher) disciples of John Wyclif.
Features:
-Commentary by Fred C. Robinson, Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English at Yale University, and noted author of many books and articles
-Searchable, original transcription of the Middle English alongside the King James text
-Essay on Gothic manuscript hands
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