1022 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



of the sixteeutli century. It bears the title " The Bible in the Spanish 

 language, translated word for woid from the Hebrew, examined by the 

 Inquisition, with the i)rivilegiuni of the Duke of Ferrara." It is there- 

 fore generally known as the Ferrara Bible. The copies of this trans- 

 lation are divided into two classes — one appropriate for the use of the 

 Jews, the other suited to the purposes of the Christians. The transla- 

 tion is extremely literal, and the translator has indicated with an 

 asterisk the words which are in Hebrew equivocal, or capable of differ- 

 ent meanings. 



Eliot's Indian Bible. (See plate 45.) Facsimile reprint. Wash- 

 ington, 1 ). C, 1890. — John Eliot, "the apostle of the Indians," was born in 

 England in 1(504 and received his education at Cambridge. In 1G31 he 

 removed to America and settled at Roxbury, Massachusetts, as minister, 

 wliere he remained until his death, in 1690. He became interested in the 

 conversion of the Indians of New England, whom he believed to be the 

 descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, and determined to give them 

 the Scriptures in their tribal tongue, which was the Natick dialect. 

 He completed the translation of the New Testament in 16G1 and that 

 of the entire Bible in 1CG3. It was printed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 

 by Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson, "ordered to be printed by 

 the Commissioners of the United Colonies in New England, At the 

 Charge, and with the Consent of the Cori)oratiou in England For the 

 Propagation of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New England." 



Eliot's Indian Bible was the first ever printed in America, and the 

 entire translation is stated to have been written with one pen. Eliot 

 also published an Indian grammar and a number of other works, 

 mostly relating to his missionary labors. The Natick dialect, in which 

 the translation of the Bible was made, is now extinct. 



Miniature Bible. — The smallest complete edition printed from 

 type. Yersion of ICll, 



Cromwell's Soldier's Pocket Bible. Facsimile rej^rint. Com- 

 piled by Edmund Calamy and issued for the use of the army of the 

 Commonwealth, London, 1043. — It has frequently been stated that 

 every soldier in Cromwell's army was provided with a pocket Bible, 

 and it was supposed that an especially small copy was used. In 1854 

 the late George Livermore, of Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, discov- 

 ered that the Bible which Cromwell's soldiers carried was not the whole 

 Bible, but the soldier's pocket Bible, which was generallj^ buttoned 

 between the coat and the waistcoat, next to the heart. It consists of 

 a number of quotations from the Genevan version (all but two from the 

 Old Testament) which were especially applicable to war times. Only 

 two copies of the original of this work are known to be in existence — 

 one in America and the other in the British Museum. The work was 

 reissued in 1G93 under the title "The Christian Soldier's Penny Bible." 

 The only copy known to be extant is in the British Museum.^ 



iFrom the Bibliographical Introductiou. 



