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BIBLE, OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, IN IRISH Tiomna Nuadh ar dtighearna agus ar slanuigheora Iósa Críosd ar na tarrv,ng go fírin̄ea'c as greigis go goiḋeilg. Re Huilliam O Domhnuill [New Testament], 4to (240 x 180mm.), 1681-1685 image 1
BIBLE, OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, IN IRISH Tiomna Nuadh ar dtighearna agus ar slanuigheora Iósa Críosd ar na tarrv,ng go fírin̄ea'c as greigis go goiḋeilg. Re Huilliam O Domhnuill [New Testament], 4to (240 x 180mm.), 1681-1685 image 2
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BIBLE, IN IRISH
Tiomna Nuadh ar dtighearna agus ar slanuigheora Iósa Críosd ar na tarrv,ng go fírin̄ea'c as greigis go goiḋeilg. Re Huilliam O Domhnuill [New Testament], 4to (240 x 180mm.)

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BIBLE, OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, IN IRISH

Tiomna Nuadh ar dtighearna agus ar slanuigheora Iósa Críosd ar na tarrv,ng go fírin̄ea'c as greigis go goiḋeilg. Re Huilliam O Domhnuill [New Testament], woodcut ornament on title, 12-line note (slight loss) in ink in margin of one leaf of preface, London, Robert Ebheringtam, 1681; Leabhuir na Seintiomna ar na ttarrv... The Books of the Old Testament Translated into Irish by the Care and Diligence of Doctor William Bedel, with the leaf before the title bearing the Irish types (according to Herbert found "in some copies" in place of the usual blank), Irish type leaf dampstained, light dampstain and softening of margin to opening few leaves, Printed at London, [no publisher], 1685; Tiomna Nuadh ar dtighearna agus ar slanuigheora Iósa Críosd ar na tarrv,ng go fírin̄ea'c as greigis go goiḋeilg. Re Huilliam O Domhnuill [New Testament], woodcut ornament on title, 12-line note (slight loss) in ink in margin of one leaf of preface, London, Robert Ebheringtam, 1681, 2 works bound in 1 vol., OT bound first, with the English preface to the NT bound after the title, text in Irish, decorative initials, with blanks, late nineteenth half calf, spine lettered in gilt "Irish Bible", extremities rubbed, hinges cracked [STC B2759C, B2759A; Darlow & Moule 5533, 5534], 4to (240 x 180mm.)

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SCARCE COMPLETE COPY OF THE BIBLE IN IRISH. The editio princeps of the Old Testament, and the second edition of the New Testament in Irish, bound in one volume. Each volume was published in an edition of approximately 500 copies (of which approximately 80 copies were supposedly sent to Scotland) printed with the Irish type presented by the scientist Robert Boyle, and chiefly at his expense. "The type was modelled on that which had been cast for the Jesuits, and which was used by them in printing Irish books at Louvain and Antwerp from 1608 to 1728, for circulation among Roman Catholics in Ireland" (Darlow & Moule). The English preface to the New Testament was written by Andrew Sall (1612-1682). The Old Testament version was made by William Bedell (1571-1642) with the assistance of Murtagh King and Dennis Sheridan.

Provenance: Rev. Lauchlan Maclean Watt DD, Glasgow Cathedral, inscription inside upper cover, and his receipt of purchase (for £12.13.4) from the bookseller William Brown of Edinburgh, 22 January 1931 tipped-in inside lower cover; Duncan Mennie (German and Scandinavian Languages at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1938-1940 and 1945-1974), with note of purchase (for £110.10.0) from the bookseller John Grant of Edinburgh, 3 November 1966 loosely inserted; by descent to the present owner.

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