WUNNEETUPANATAMWE UP-BIBLUM GOD NANEESWE NUKKONE TESTAMENT KAH WONK WUSKU TESTAMENT. Ne quofhkinnumuk nafhpe Wuttinneumoh CHRIST JOHN ELIOT CAMBRIDGE: Printeuoop nafhpe Samuel Green kaħ Marmaduke Johnson. 1 6. 6. 3. Fac-simile of the Indian title page of the Elio Bible of 1663. Reduced size. The third and fourth title-pages are contained in the New Testament; and, as they are the same as in the edition of 1661, the description need not be repeated. At the end of the Old Testament are the words "Wohkukquohsinwog Quoshodtumwaenuog;" that is, "The Prophets are ended." The New Testament is followed by a metrical version of the Psalms. There is no title-page to the Psalms, but this heading: "Wame Ketoohomae Uketoohomaongash David; " meaning, "All the Singing Songs of David." At the close, on one leaf, are rules for Christian living, consisting of two questions, "How can I walk all day long with God?" and "What should a Christian do to keep perfectly holy the Sabbath Day?"— with the answers. The book is a quarto in size and printed upon excellent paper. The pages measure 63 inches by 4 inches. Genesis and the other books to the end of the Old Testament cover 414 leaves; and St. Matthew to the end of the New Testament, 126 leaves. The Psalms in metre fill 50 leaves, and the total number of printed pages in the Bible is 600. There is a 1 dedication to Charles the Second covering two pages. This differs in wording from the first that appeared in the edition of 1661, as it is a dedication of the whole Bible to His Majesty. As in the case of the New Testament, presentation copies of the Bible of 1663 were sent to the English Corporation, to be disposed of as that body should elect. The number thus sent was twenty, in an unbound condition. In England they were substantially bound in dark-blue morocco. What disposition was made of these twenty volumes, and who became their recipients, is not known, except that one copy was presented Charles the Second. A portion of the edition of 1663 was bound up for the use of the Indians, and contained no English title-pages and dedication, for it was wholly in the Indian tongue. The copies previously spoken of as having the English titlepages and dedication are marked by certain variations. Mr. Wilberforce Eames, in his 1 Appendix B. "Bibliographic Notes on Eliot's Indian Bible and his other Translations and Works in the Indian Language of Massachusetts," printed at Washington by the Government in 1890, makes a classification of seven varieties. He says: 1 "These differ in the number of certain preliminary leaves: namely, the dedication of the whole Bible, the Indian general title, the leaf of contents, the English New Testament title, and the dedication of the New Testament, one or more of which are generally omitted; also in the Indian New Testament title, which sometimes does not contain the diamond-shaped figure." Those persons who desire to study these differences critically are referred to Mr. Eames's valuable work. Dr. E. B. O'Callaghan, in his "List of Bibles printed in America," points out sixty errors in the printing of the Eliot Bible of 1663, and most of these were caused by the omission of certain words and sentences from the translation. A ludicrous mistake was made in the rendering of the twenty-third verse of the 1 Bibliographic Notes, p. 16. |