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  ANNUAL, 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1922. 
  

  

  Professor 
  Sanders, 
  the 
  editor 
  of 
  the 
  manuscript, 
  would 
  place 
  it 
  in 
  

   the 
  fourth 
  century 
  A. 
  D. 
  (PI. 
  38.) 
  

  

  Ethiopic 
  Version 
  of 
  the 
  Bible. 
  Photograph 
  of 
  original 
  Bible 
  pre- 
  

   served 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  National 
  Museum. 
  This 
  copy 
  was 
  ob- 
  

   tained 
  from 
  King 
  Theodore, 
  of 
  Abyssinia, 
  by 
  Lord 
  Napier, 
  and 
  by 
  

   him 
  presented 
  to 
  General 
  Grant. 
  The 
  Ethiopic 
  version 
  was 
  made 
  

   in 
  the 
  fourth 
  century, 
  probably 
  by 
  Frumentius, 
  the 
  Apostle 
  of 
  

   Ethiopia. 
  It 
  has 
  46 
  books 
  in 
  all, 
  containing, 
  in 
  addition 
  to 
  the 
  

   Canon, 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  Apocryphal 
  books. 
  

  

  Latin 
  Bible. 
  Folio 
  edition 
  printed 
  by 
  Anthony 
  Coburger 
  in 
  Nu- 
  

   remberg, 
  Germany, 
  1478. 
  The 
  Latin 
  Bible 
  goes 
  back 
  to 
  a 
  Latin 
  

   translation 
  made 
  from 
  the 
  Septuagint 
  in 
  the 
  second 
  century, 
  and 
  

   known 
  as 
  Vetus 
  Itala 
  or 
  " 
  Old 
  Italic." 
  The 
  present 
  version, 
  how- 
  

   ever, 
  is 
  due 
  to 
  St. 
  Jerome 
  (Hieronymus), 
  and 
  was 
  made 
  by 
  him 
  in 
  

   Bethlehem 
  between 
  383 
  and 
  407 
  A. 
  D. 
  It 
  was 
  for 
  a 
  long 
  time 
  the 
  

   Bible 
  of 
  the 
  Western 
  Church, 
  and 
  of 
  a 
  large 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Eastern 
  

   Church. 
  Though 
  no 
  doubt 
  based 
  on 
  the 
  Septuagint, 
  the 
  translation 
  

   of 
  the 
  Old 
  Testament 
  was 
  made 
  with 
  reference 
  to 
  the 
  original 
  

   Hebrew, 
  with 
  which 
  Jerome 
  was 
  well 
  acquainted. 
  The 
  translation 
  is 
  

   commonly 
  called 
  the 
  Vulgate, 
  a 
  name 
  which 
  was 
  originally 
  given 
  to 
  

   the 
  Septuagint. 
  It 
  is 
  still 
  in 
  use 
  by 
  the 
  Roman 
  Catholic 
  Church. 
  

   It 
  was 
  the 
  first 
  Bible 
  ever 
  printed, 
  being 
  produced 
  by 
  Gutenberg 
  

   between 
  1450 
  and 
  1455, 
  and 
  constituted 
  the 
  first 
  important 
  speci- 
  

   men 
  of 
  printing 
  with 
  metal 
  types. 
  This 
  Bible 
  — 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  twelve 
  

   Coburger 
  Latin 
  editions 
  — 
  is 
  printed 
  on 
  468 
  leaves 
  in 
  double 
  col- 
  

   umns, 
  with 
  fifty-one 
  and 
  fifty-three 
  lines 
  to 
  the 
  column. 
  It 
  has 
  no 
  

   title 
  page, 
  signatures, 
  catchwords, 
  or 
  initials. 
  The 
  initial 
  letters 
  of 
  

   paragraphs 
  are 
  painted 
  by 
  hand. 
  

  

  Greek 
  and 
  Latin 
  New 
  Testament 
  of 
  Erasmus. 
  Editio 
  princeps. 
  

   Printed 
  by 
  Frebonius 
  in 
  Basel, 
  Switzerland, 
  1516. 
  The 
  edition 
  of 
  

   the 
  Greek 
  New 
  Testament, 
  by 
  Erasmus, 
  was 
  the 
  first 
  ever 
  pub- 
  

   lished, 
  and 
  became, 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  modifications, 
  the 
  received 
  text. 
  

   Luther's 
  translation 
  was 
  based 
  upon 
  it. 
  To 
  the 
  Greek 
  original 
  

   Erasmus 
  added 
  a 
  corrected 
  Latin 
  version 
  with 
  notes. 
  (PI. 
  39.) 
  

  

  Arabic 
  Version 
  of 
  Saadia 
  Gaon. 
  In 
  Hebrew 
  characters. 
  The 
  

   Pentateuch, 
  edited 
  by 
  J. 
  Derenbourg, 
  Paris, 
  1893. 
  Saadia 
  Gaon 
  

   was 
  born 
  at 
  Fayum, 
  A. 
  D. 
  892, 
  and 
  died 
  in 
  942. 
  His 
  translation 
  of 
  

   the 
  Bible 
  is 
  rather 
  a 
  paraphrase 
  and 
  has 
  a 
  high 
  exegetical 
  value. 
  

  

  ENGLISH 
  VERSIONS 
  OF 
  THE 
  BIBLE. 
  

  

  The 
  New 
  Testament 
  Translated 
  by 
  John 
  Wy 
  cliff 
  e, 
  about 
  1380. 
  

   Printed 
  from 
  a 
  contemporary 
  manuscript 
  by 
  William 
  Pickering. 
  

   London, 
  1848. 
  John 
  Wycliffe 
  was 
  born 
  in 
  Yorkshire, 
  about 
  1320. 
  

   He 
  studied 
  at 
  Baliol 
  College, 
  Oxford, 
  and 
  was 
  for 
  some 
  time 
  master 
  

  

  