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ID #: 2
Map-Maker: Speed
Title: Cannan c.1
Date of Publication: 1611
Height (cm): 20
Width (cm): 32
Description: King James Bible 1611?
Condition: Very bad. Laid down on tissue. English text on verso.
Source: Invoice
References:

Wikipedia - The KJV was first printed by John Norton and Robert Barker, who both held the post of the King's Printer, and was the third translation into English language approved by the English Church authorities: The first had been the Great Bible, commissioned in the reign of King Henry VIII (1535), and the second had been the Bishops' Bible, commissioned in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1568).[4] In Geneva, Switzerland, the first generation of Protestant Reformers had produced the Geneva Bible of 1560[5] from the original Hebrew and Greek scriptures, which was influential in the writing of the Authorized King James Version.

In January 1604, King James convened the Hampton Court Conference, where a new English version was conceived in response to the problems of the earlier translations perceived by the Puritans,[6] a faction of the Church of England.[7]

James gave the translators instructions intended to ensure that the new version would conform to the ecclesiology, and reflect the episcopal structure, of the Church of England and its belief in an ordained clergy.[8] The translation was done by 6 panels of translators (47 men in all, most of whom were leading biblical scholars in England) who had the work divided up between them: the Old Testament was entrusted to three panels, the New Testament to two, and the Apocrypha to one.[9] In common with most other translations of the period, the New Testament was translated from Greek, the Old Testament from Hebrew and Aramaic, and the Apocrypha from Greek and Latin.

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Date Acquired: Nov. 11, 2009
Acquired from: Ye Olde Book Store - Marc Crocker
Price ($): $$364.80
Title, Uniform: Canaan c.1
Media Type: Sheet Map - Other
Call #: KJB-CA-020 c.1
Frame Type: Mylar Envelope
Inset Map: Jervsalem
Title (Label): Cannan c.1
Label Generated: No
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