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Leaf Collection

The Leaf Collection is a collection of more than 400 individual leaves, ranging in date from the 11th century to the 20th century. Several examples of incunabula are included. A large percentage of the collection is biblical in nature, representing many languages, including Armenian, Cherokee, Chippewa, Choctaw, Coptic, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish. Likewise, many versions of the Bible are represented, including Tyndale, Coverdale, Great, Geneva, Bishops’, Matthew’s, Rhemes/Douay, and King James.

Date Description
Date Description
11th Century Coptic Bible Manuscript (Oversized Drawers)
c1121 Armenian Manuscript Bible (Oversized Drawers)
Late 12th Century Book of Gospel readings, on vellum, in Latin
Mid 13th Century Medieval Manuscript Bible, Paris, France, in Latin, on vellum, Jeremiah 36-38 (197x134mm)
Mid 13th Century Medieval Manuscript Bible, France, on vellum, three columns of fifty-four lines
13th Century Miniature Manuscript Bible, written and decorated by hand, Paris, France
c1220 Medieval Bible, Latin manuscript
c1240 Miniature Manuscript Bible, Latin Vulgate version, usually attributed to St. Jerome, is here executed in angular Gothic script, eleven lines to the inch, on finest vellum
c1250-75 Medieval Manuscript Bible, Paris, France, in Latin, on vellum, 145x100 mm, 47 lines of double-column text
c1260 Medieval Manuscript Bible
c1300-30 Medieval Manuscript Bible, France, in Latin, on vellum (185x125mm), Mark 12:43-14:2
c1310 Paris Manuscript Bible, Latin Vulgate version, written in Gothic script, seven lines to the inch, on fine vellum
c1345 Coptic Bible Manuscript, Revelation title page
c1345 Latin Manuscript Bible, two leaves (Oversized Drawers)
c1350 Hebrew Haftorah
c1350 Italian Incunabula Bible
c1380 Breviary/Prayer book
c1380 Breviary/Prayer book
c1380 Breviary/Prayer book
c1380 Breviary/Prayer book
c1380 Breviary/Prayer book
c1390 Prayer book
15th Century An original vellum leaf
15th Century Smiths Historical and Leterary Curiosities (Oversized Drawers)
15th Century Smiths Historical and Leterary Curiosities (Oversized Drawers)
15th Century Flemish leaf (Oversized Drawers)
Possibly 15th or 16th Century Early Hebrew Manuscript work, possibly containing Aramaic script as well
c1425 Breviary/Prayer book, France
c1450 Himyante Ethiopian Bible
Age Unknown A Leaf from a Gutenberg Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1460 Illuminated Medieval Manuscript, Book of Hours
c1475 Medieval Breviary Manuscript
c1476 First Jenson Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1476 Mammotractus Supper Biblian
c1476 Non-Bible, from work “Pliny” (Oversized Drawers)
c1477 Zainer Bible, II Macchabees (Oversized Drawers)
c1479 Jenson Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1479 Mamotrectus Super Bibliam
c1480 Philemon, by Ottaviano Scoto in Venice
c1482 Biblia Sacra
c1482 Biblia Sacra
c1482 Biblia Sacra
c1482 Biblia Sacra
c1482 Biblia Sacra
c1482 Biblia Sacra
c1483 Biblica Germanica (Oversized Drawers)
1491 In Psalterium Expositio, by Cassiodorus, commentary on the Psalms, from the press of Johann de Amerbach (or Amorbach), Basle, Switzerland, rubricated by hand, with initials in red or blue (Oversized Drawers)
c1492 Portable Bible, Latin, Index of Names
c1493 Latin Vulgate Bible, Nuremberg (Oversized Drawers)
1495 Infortiatum de Tortis, law book, printed by Baptista de Tortis in venice, text in the center surrounded by marginal notes, masterpiece of Venetian typography, bold gothic type (Oversized Drawers)
c1495 Italian Incunabula Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1497 Koberger Latin Bible, Nuremberg (Oversized Drawers)
c1497? Latin Bible, Nuremberg (Oversized Drawers)
  “Biblia cum Summarioru apparatu pleno …”
16th Century A leaf from an unidentified 16th century text
16th Century A leaf from an unidentified 16th century text
16th Century A leaf from an unidentified 16th century text
16th Century A leaf from an unidentified 16th century text
16th Century A leaf from an unidentified 16th century text
16th Century A leaf from an unidentified 16th century text
16th Century A leaf from an unidentified 16th century text
16th Century A leaf from an unidentified 16th century text
16th Century A leaf from an unidentified 16th century text
16th Century A leaf from an unidentified 16th century text
16th Century A leaf from an unidentified 16th century text
16th Century A leaf from an unidentified 16th century text
16th Century` A leaf from an unidentified 16th century text
16th Century A leaf from an unidentified 16th century text
16th Century Original 16th century Bible leaf (Oversized Drawers)
c1503 Caxton Bible Story Book, 10 Commandments (Oversized Drawers)
c1503 Caxton Bible Story Book, 10 Commandments (Oversized Drawers)
c1506 Biblii Czeska W Benatkach Tisstena, in Bohemian (Oversized Drawers)
c1506 Biblii Czeska W Benatkach Tisstena, in Bohemian (Oversized Drawers)
1509 Panis Quotidianus, book of sermons, bold gothic, hand rubricated in red, printed in the town of Hagenau, Germany (Oversized Drawers)
1510 Natural Philosophy, by Aristotle, imprint of Henry Stephanus, in French gothic, hand written notes on the margins by a contemporary scholar (Oversized Drawers)
1513 Cornucopia, by Perottus, printed in Venice by Aldus Manutius (Oversized Drawers)
c1513 Guillermus Parisiensis
c1516 Hieronymi Commentary on the Bible, work of Erasmus of Rotterdam (Oversized Drawers)
c1516 Hieronymi Commentary on the Bible, work of Erasmus of Rotterdam (Oversized Drawers)
1517 Aeneis, by Virgil, printed in Lyons, France, by Jacobus Sacon (Oversized Drawers)
c1518 Aldine Greek Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1519 Latin Bible, Venice, Italy, I Machabees 7
c1519 Latin Bible Index, Venice, Italy
c1519 Latin Bible Index, Venice, Italy
c1521 Koberger Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1521 Koberger Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1523 Book of Hours, Paris, France, in Latin
October 29, 1523 Martin Luther’s Old Testament Penteteuch, first edition
c1526 Greek Bible, Psalms 70-71, Strassburg
c1526 Latin Bible, Psalms
c1526 Latin Book of Psalms, Lyon, France
c1527 Caxton English Bible Stories
1527 Fasti, by Ovid, published by Alexander Paganini, in Tusculanum, Italy (Oversized Drawers)
c1529 Martin Luther’s New Testament Bible, First Edition, from a historically unrecorded printing
c1529 Martin Luther’s New Testament Bible, First Edition, from a historically unrecorded printing
c1530 Luther’s “Combined Bible”, First Edition (Oversized Drawers)
c1530 Latin French Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1532 Bible of the Low Countries (Oversized Drawers)
c1534 German Bible, Johann Dietenberger (Oversized Drawers)
1535-1536 Tyndale New Testament
1535-1536 Tyndale New Testament
1535 Biblia Sacra, Printed at Strasburg, Germany, by Johannes Schottus, Latin text
c1535 Coverdale Bible New Testament (Oversized Drawers)
1537 Czech Bible, Attributed to Pavel Severin, Prague (Oversized Drawers)
c1537 Tyndale Bible, First Edition (Oversized Drawers)
1538 Coverdale’s Diglot Testament, Printed by James Nicholson
1538 Coverdale’s Diglot Testament, Printed by James Nicholson
c1538 Tyndale New Testament, Published by Myles Coverdale
c1538 Tyndale New Testament
c1539 Great Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1539 Great Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1539 Taverner’s Bible, First Edition
c1539 Taverner’s Bible, First Edition
c1540 Great Bible, Folio (Oversized Drawers)
c1540 Great Bible, Folio (Oversized Drawers)
c1541 Rosario Della Gl(or)iosa V(ir)gine Maria, Printed in Venedig
c1541 Suppressed Luther Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1542 Biblia Vulgata, Printed in Venice, Small Folio, 11 leaf set (Oversized Drawers)
c1545 Latin Vulgate/Zurich Latin Bible
1545 Lucian, in original Greek, small 12mo volume, printed by Michael Isengrin of Basel (Oversized Drawers)
c1545 Luther German Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1545 Luther German Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1545 Luther German Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1549 Great Bible (Oversized Drawers)
1549 A leaf from the “Great Bible” printed in the year fifteen forty-nine (Oversized Drawers)
c1549 Mathew Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1549 Matthew Tyndale, Book of Joel title page
c1550 Greek and Latin Bible, Basel, Switzerland
c1551 Giustiniani’s Hebrew-Latin Bible
c1551 Matthews Bible, Folio (Oversized Drawers)
c1552 Tyndale New Testament
c1552 Tyndale New Testament
c1552 Tyndale New Testament
1553 History of his Own Times, by Bishop Paulus Jovius, printed by Michael Vascosanus, Paris (Oversized Drawers)
1554 Josephus, printed by Jerome Froben and Nicholas Episcopius, in Basle (Oversized Drawers)
c1555 Stephanus Latin Bible
c1560 Geneva Bible, First Edition/First Printing
1560-1644 Geneva Bible
c1564 Dietenberger Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1564 Dietenberger Bible (Oversized Drawers)
1565 Euclid, by Nicholas Tartalea, printed by Curtio Troiano, in Venice, with four woodcuts (Oversized Drawers)
c1565 Plantin Loubain Bible
c1566 Great Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1566 Great Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1568 Bishop’s Bible New Testament (Oversized Drawers)
c1568 Geneva “Breeches”, Second Quarto Edition, Apocrypha
c1568 Geneva “Breeches”, Second Quarto Edition
1569 Bishops’ Bible, First Edition, quarto format
c1569 Stephanus Greek New Testament
c1570 Roman Missal, Printed by Christopher Plantin’s Press, in Antwerp
c1572 Bishops’ Bible, Second Edition (Oversized Drawers)
c1572 German Luther Bible Fragment, Ark of Covenant wood cut
c1573 Parallel Bible, Printed in Venice with one column in Greek and the other in Latin, from the book of Luke
c1573 Parallel Bible, Printed in Venice with one column in Greek and the other in Latin, from the book of John
c1575 Bishops’ Bible
c1576 Geneva “Breeches” Bible
c1578 Bishops Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1578 Geneva Bible, First Edition, Pulpit Leaf (Oversized Drawers)
1579 Geneva Bible, Printed in London
c1580 Early Printed Hebrew Bible, The Chamishah Chumshei Torah, from the book of II Samuel
c1581 Biblia Sacra
c1581 French Catholic Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1582 Geneva Bible
1582 Geneva Bible, Printed by Christopher Barker in London, England, folio size
1582 1582 Rhemes New Testament, First Edition
c1583 Geneva Bible, Printed by Christopher Barker, in London, England (Oversized Drawers)
c1583 Geneva Bible, Large Folio (Oversized Drawers)
c1583 Louvain Bible, three leaves (Oversized Drawers)
c1584 Hebrew Bible with Latin, Text after Pagnini (Oversized Drawers)
c1584 New Testament in Greek (Oversized Drawers)
1585 Testamentis Novae Domini, Nostri Iesu Christi, Printed by Henry Middleton in London, England, quarto size
c1587 Hebrew Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1588 Bishop’s Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1589 Geneva Bible
c1592 Geneva “Breeches” Bible
c1592 The Holy Bible, Printed in London
c1592 The Holy Bible, Printed in London
c1592 The Holy Bible, Printed in London
c1592 The Holy Bible, Printed in London
c1592 The Holy Bible, Printed in London
c1593 Biblica Sacra Vulgate “Clementine Bible”
c1594 Das Catholische Bibell, Folio (Oversized Drawers)
c1594 Das Catholische Bibell, Folio (Oversized Drawers)
c1594 Das Catholische Bibell, Folio (Oversized Drawers)
c1594 Das Catholische Bibell, Folio (Oversized Drawers)
c1594 Second Printed Spanish Bible, Folio
c1595 Geneva Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1596 Biblia Sacra Graece, Latine & Germanice (Oversized Drawers)
c1596 Hamburg Polyglot (Oversized Drawers)
1597 Geographiae Universae, by Magini, published by Peter Keschedt, in Cologne (Oversized Drawers)
c1598 Geneva “Breeches” Bible, Printed by deputies of Christopher Barker
c1599? Geneva “Breeches” Bible, Printed by Christopher Barker
c1599? Geneva “Breeches” Bible, Printed by Christopher Barker
c1599? Geneva “Breeches” Bible, Printed by Christopher Barker
Circa 17th Century Greek Portable Bible
17th Century Psalter
17th Century Psalter
17th Century Psalter, [four] three leaves
Mid 17th Century Huguenot Bible, printed in Paris (Oversized Drawers)
c1600 Rhemes New Testament, second edition
c1600 Rhemes New Testament, second edition
c1600 Rhemes New Testament, second edition, printed in Antwerp by Daniel Veruliet
c1601 Fulke’s New Testament (Oversized Drawers)
1602 Justinian Code, Ex Officina Vignoniana, in St. Gervais, near Paris (Oversized Drawers)
c1602 Seuberlich Wittenberg Bible
c1602 Seuberlich Wittenberg Bible
c1602 Seuberlich Wittenberg Bible
c1602 Seuberlich Wittenberg Bible
c1602 Seuberlich Wittenberg Bible, Matthew 16:15 – 18:12
c1602 Seuberlich Wittenberg Bible, Matthew 10:29 – 12:18
c1602 Seuberlich Wittenberg Bible, Matthew 18:13 – 20:3
c1602 Wittenberg German Bible, Hosea 14:9 – Joel 2:20
c1602 Geneva Bible
c1603 Holy Bible, in Latin, Jerome’s Vulgate translation (Oversized Drawers)
c1606 Geneva Bible
c1607 Biblia Sacra Vulgate Edition
c1607 Geneva “Breeches”
c1607 Geneva “Breeches”
c1607 Geneva “Breeches” (Oversized Drawers)
c1608 Biblia Sacra Vulgate Edition
c1608 Biblia Sacra Vulgate Edition
c1608 Biblia Sacra Vulgate Edition
c1608 Biblia Sacra Vulgate Edition
c1608 Biblia Sacra Vulgate Edition
c1608 Geneva “Breeches”
c1611 Geneva Red Ruled Bible
c1611 Geneva Red Ruled Bible
c1611 Geneva Bible
c1611 King James Bible, first edition (Oversized Drawers)
c1611 King James Bible, first edition (Oversized Drawers)
c1611 King James Bible, first edition (Oversized Drawers)
c1611 King James Bible, first edition (Oversized Drawers)
c1611 King James Bible, first edition (Oversized Drawers)
c1611 King James Bible, first edition (Oversized Drawers)
c1611 King James Bible, first edition (Oversized Drawers)
c1612 King James Bible, first quarto edition
c1612 King James Bible, first quarto edition, Geneologies of Kelub and Amminadab
c1613 King James Bible
c1613 King James Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1613 King James Bible, first edition (Oversized Drawers)
c1613 King James Bible, first edition (Oversized Drawers)
c1613 King James Bible, first edition (Oversized Drawers)
c1614 Geneva “Breeches”
c1615 Geneva “Breeches” Bible
c1615 Geneva “Breeches” Bible
c1617 The Text of the New Testament of Jesus Christ, first edition, three leaves (Oversized Drawers)
c1617 The Text of the New Testament of Jesus Christ, first edition (Oversized Drawers)
1617-1618 Hebrew Pentateuch, printed in four volumes, by Pierre de al Roviere, in Geneva (Oversized Drawers)
c1618 The Pentateuch w/ Commentaries, two leaves (Oversized Drawers)
1621 Psalter, Printed by Company of Stationers
1625 King James Bible, quarto edition
1625 King James Bible, quarto edition
1625 King James Bible, quarto edition
1625 King James Bible, quarto edition
1625 King James Bible, quarto edition
1625 King James Bible, quarto edition
1626 Miniature Elzevir, volume on France, in the “Republic Series”, printed by Elzevir family, in Leyden (Oversized Drawers)
1628 King James Bible, quarto edition
1628 Vulgate Bible, printed at the Plantin Press, in Antwerp (Oversized Drawers)
c1629 King James Bible, oversized quarto
1630 King James Bible, quarto edition
1630 King James Bible, quarto edition
c1630 King James Bible
c1632 Greek New Testament
c1632 The Acts and Monuments of the Church, London (Oversized Drawers)
c1632 The Acts and Monuments of the Church, London (Oversized Drawers)
c1632 The Acts and Monuments of the Church, London (Oversized Drawers)
c1632 The Acts and Monuments of the Church, London (Oversized Drawers)
c1632 The Acts and Monuments of the Church, London (Oversized Drawers)
c1632 King James Bible, folio, three leaves (Oversized Drawers)
c1632 The True Convert, London, by Nehemiah Rogers
c1632 The True Convert, London, by Nehemiah Rogers
c1632 The True Convert, London, by Nehemiah Rogers
1633 Geneva “Breeches” at Amsterdam, Printed by John Fredericksz
1633 King James Bible, quarto edition
1634 King James Bible, octavo edition
1634 King James Bible, octavo edition
c1638 King James Bible
c1638 King James Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1641 King James Bible, New Testament title page
c1643 An Exposition of the Prophecy of Hosea, London
c1643 An Exposition of the Prophecy of Hosea, London
c1643 An Exposition of the Prophecy of Hosea, London
c1643 An Exposition of the Prophecy of Hosea, London
c1643 An Exposition of the Prophecy of Hosea, London
c1643 An Exposition of the Prophecy of Hosea, London
c1643 An Exposition of the Prophecy of Hosea, London
c1643 An Exposition of the Prophecy of Hosea, London
c1643 An Exposition of the Prophecy of Hosea, London
c1643 An Exposition of the Prophecy of Hosea, London
1644 Historien Ende Prophecien, Printed in Antwerp, near full page engraving of Moses at Court, with text on verso
c1648 Jesuit New Testament, Peter preaching woodcut
c1649 King James Bible with Geneva Notes, first edition
Before 1650 King James Bible, quarto edition, printed before 1650
c1653 Pearl Bible
1657 King James Bible, Cambridge Quarto, New Testament title page
c1657 London Polyglot Bible (N.T.) (Oversized Drawers)
c1657 The Reports of Sr. George Croke Knight: Late, one of the Justices of the Court, printed London
c1657 The Reports of Sr. George Croke Knight: Late, one of the Justices of the Court, printed London
c1657 The Reports of Sr. George Croke Knight: Late, one of the Justices of the Court, printed London
c1657 The Reports of Sr. George Croke Knight: Late, one of the Justices of the Court, printed London
c1657 The Reports of Sr. George Croke Knight: Late, one of the Justices of the Court, printed London
c1657 The Reports of Sr. George Croke Knight: Late, one of the Justices of the Court, printed London
c1657 The Reports of Sr. George Croke Knight: Late, one of the Justices of the Court, printed London
c1657 The Reports of Sr. George Croke Knight: Late, one of the Justices of the Court, printed London
c1657 The Reports of Sr. George Croke Knight: Late, one of the Justices of the Court, printed London
c1657 The Reports of Sr. George Croke Knight: Late, one of the Justices of the Court, printed London
1658 De Indiae Utriusque, Re Naturali et Medica, by William Piso, printed by the Elzevirs at their Amsterdam Press, with two large woodcuts (Oversized Drawers)
c1660 King James Bible, folio (Oversized Drawers)
1663 Eliot Indian Bible, 1st edition
c1663 Elzevir States General Bible (Oversized Drawers)
1665 Greek Septuagint Bible
1670 1670 Bible, John 3, Nicodemus & Jesus woodcut
c1672 German Folio, First Edition (Oversized Drawers)
1674 Commentariorum in Ordinationes Regias Castellae, printed in the shop of Dominicus a Portonariis, at the expense of Vincentius a Portonariis, in Salamanca, with a penned date of 1574 on the accompanying printed paper folder (Oversized Drawers)
1678 Greek New Testament, seventh and last Elzevir edition, at Amsterdam
1683 1683 Holy Bible, Printed by J. Hayes at Cambridge
1683 1683 Holy Bible, Printed by J. Hayes at Cambridge
1683 1683 Holy Bible, Printed by J. Hayes at Cambridge
c1683 The Holy Bible, Printed in Cambridge
c1683 The Holy Bible, Printed in Cambridge
c1683 The Holy Bible, Printed in Cambridge
c1683 The Holy Bible, Printed in Cambridge
c1683 The Holy Bible, Printed in Cambridge
c1683 The Holy Bible, Printed in Cambridge
c1683 The Holy Bible, Printed in Cambridge
c1683 The Holy Bible, Printed in Cambridge
c1683 The Holy Bible, Printed in Cambridge
c1683 The Holy Bible, Printed in Cambridge
c1685 Eliot Indian Bible, a second edition
c1685 Eliot Indian Bible, a second edition
c1688 English Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1695 Martin Luther Bible
c1695 Martin Luther Bible
c1700 Dutch Biblical Text Book (Oversized Drawers)
c1700 Dutch Biblical Text Book (Oversized Drawers)
c1700 Dutch Biblical Text Book (Oversized Drawers)
c1700 English Bible
c1713 Furniture of the Tabernacle (Oversized Drawers)
c1731 Biblia Syriace Bible
c1735 Copper Plate Engraving (Oversized Drawers)
c1736 The Holy Bible in German (Oversized Drawers)
c1740 Baskett Bible
c1743 Saur Bible
c1743 Saur Bible
c1747 Biblia Neerlandica (Oversized Drawers)
c1747 Biblia Neerlandica (Oversized Drawers)
1749 1749 English Bible, Printed by Thomas Baskett
c1750 Hebrew Manuscript, Numbers 4 (Oversized Drawers)
c1750 Hebrew Manuscript, Numbers 6 (Oversized Drawers)
c1750 King James Bible
c1750-1800 Russian Lectionary, four leaves
c1759 Copper Plate Engraving (Oversized Drawers)
c1760 Copper Plate Engraving (Oversized Drawers)
c1763 Baskerville Cambridge Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1763 Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, engraving of “Altar of Incense, Altar of Burnt Offering”
c1763 Saur Bible
c1763 Saur Bible
1763 Leaf from 1763 Sower Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1763 Germantown Bible
c1769 Baskerville Birmingham Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1770 English Bible
c1770 English Bible
c1770 English Bible
c1770 English Bible
c1770 English Bible
c1770 English Bible
c1776 Saur “Gun Wad” Bible
c1776 Saur “Gun Wad” Bible
c1776 Saur “Gun Wad” Bible
c1776 Saur “Gun Wad” Bible
c1780 Biblia Sacra Vulgate Edition, two leaves
c1782 Aitken Bible
c1782 Aitken Bible, first Old Testament edition
c1782 Aitken Bible, second New Testament edition
c1788 Curious Hieroglyphics Bible
c1790 Carey Douay Bible
c1790 Copper Plate Engraving (Oversized Drawers)
c1790 Douay Bible
c1791 Isaac Collins Bible
c1791 Isaac Collins’ Family Bible
c1791 Isaiah Thomas Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1791 Isaiah Thomas Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1792 “Self-Interpreting” Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1795 Ethiopia Large Coptic Bible, on vellum, two leaves
c1796 Berriman Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1797 United States of Columbia Bible “Standing Edition”
c1798 Hot Press Bible (Oversized Drawers)
19th Century Biblia Sacra Polyglotta (Oversized Drawers)
19th Century Biblia Sacra Polyglotta (Oversized Drawers)
c1800 Greek Bible
c1800 Thomas Greek New Testament
c1801 The Holy Bible, Printed in New York, New York (Oversized Drawers)
c1801 The Holy Bible, Printed in New York, New York (Oversized Drawers)
c1801 The Holy Bible, Printed in New York, New York (Oversized Drawers)
c1807 Gaelic Bible
1807 King James Bible, Printed by Mathew Carey, Philadelphia
c1808 The Holy Bible
1808 Thomson’s Bible, Printed by Jane Aitken, Philadelphia
c1811 The Immaculate Bible
c1814 Hebrew Bible
c1814 Hebrew Bible
c1815 French Bible
c1824 Spanish Bible
c1825 The Pronouncing Bible
c1831 Polyglott Bible
c1833 Chippewa New Testament
c1833 Noah Webster Bible
c1836 Mohawk Mark & John
c1837 Tyndale New Testament
c1838 Hawaiian Bible
c1839 Portuguese New Testament
c1842 Pre-Braille Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1842 Pre-Braille Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1846 The Illuminated Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1848 The “fonetick” New Testament
c1849 Dutch New Testament
c1850 Swedish New Testament
c1856 Cherokee Genesis
c1856 Cherokee Bible, House of Gutenberg
c1860 Cherokee New Testament
c1860 Cherokee New Testament
c1862 Confederate New Testament
1861, 1862 1862 Confederate Bible (left), 1861 Union Bible (right), House of Gutenberg
1861, 1862 1862 Confederate Bible (left), 1861 American Bible Society Bible (right)
1861, 1862 1862 Confederate Bible (left), 1861 American Bible Society Bible (right)
c1866 Dakota New Testament
c1867 Choctaw Pentateuch
c1868 Bible for the Blind (Oversized Drawers)
c1868 Bible for the Blind (Oversized Drawers)
c1878 The Holy Bible, 1st translated by a woman
c1880 Douay Rheims Vulgate Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1880 Maclin Bible Old Testament (Oversized Drawers)
c1896 Mite Bible
c1899 Polychrome Bible
c1900 Hebrew Bible Manuscript, three leaves
1903-1905 Doves Bible (Oversized Drawers)
1924-1925 Nonesuch Bible (Oversized Drawers)
c1935 Rogers Oxford Lectern Bible (Oversized Drawers)
Undated The Transfiguration of Jesus Christ (Oversized Drawers)

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