A Textual History of the King James Bible

Cover......Page 1
ATextual History of the King James Bible......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Illustrations......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 13
Part 1   The history......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
The beginnings of the King James Bible......Page 17
Setting-up the work......Page 19
Companies at work......Page 24
MS 98......Page 28
Making the final version: John Bois’s notes......Page 30
The annotated Bishops’ Bible......Page 33
Acontribution fromthe printer?......Page 38
The final copy......Page 39
Conclusion......Page 40
Introduction......Page 42
MS 98......Page 43
Bois’s notes......Page 47
The Bishops’ Bible of 1602......Page 48
Bod 1602......Page 50
Plate 1. Genesis 15–16 from the 1602 Bishops’ Bible......Page 52
A‘Bible of the largest and greatest volume’......Page 59
Aspecimen page......Page 60
Plate 2. First edition KJB, Genesis 16–17......Page 61
Initials and space......Page 64
Plate 3. Five unusual initials from the first edition of the King James Bible......Page 65
Typographical errors......Page 67
‘Hidden’ errors......Page 70
Introduction......Page 75
The second folio edition or ‘She’ Bible (H319)......Page 78
Plate 4. Second edition KJB, Genesis 16–17.......Page 81
The early quartos and octavos......Page 86
The 1613 folio (H322)......Page 89
The 1616 small folio, roman type (H349)......Page 91
The 1617 folio (H353......Page 92
Conclusion......Page 94
The first Cambridge edition, 1629 (H424)......Page 95
The second Cambridge edition, 1638 (H520)......Page 102
Spelling in the Cambridge editions......Page 106
Commercial competition and corruptions......Page 107
A standard – or a new revision?......Page 109
Ahundred years of solicitude......Page 112
Three Bibles......Page 116
What Parris and Blayney did to the text......Page 119
Why did Blayney’s become the standard text?......Page 126
Introduction......Page 128
Should the text have been changed? Thomas Curtis
 and the Universities......Page 129
The American text......Page 132
F. H. A. Scrivener and the Cambridge Paragraph Bible......Page 135
Conclusion: a fossilised concord......Page 138
Part 2   The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible......Page 142
The beginning of The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible......Page 144
‘Mere orthography’......Page 146
Plate 5. Ezekiel 40:42 From the first edition KJB......Page 147
Names......Page 159
Conclusion......Page 161
The original punctuation......Page 162
The received punctuation......Page 166
Punctuation in The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible......Page 168
The italics......Page 175
Themargin, headers and chapter summaries......Page 176
Part 3 
Appendices......Page 178
Appendix 1 
Printer’s errors in the first edition......Page 180
Appendix 2 
First and second edition variations......Page 186
Appendix 3 
The King’s Printer’s list?......Page 193
Appendix 4
 Selective collation of the 1613 folio (H322) with the first 
and second editions......Page 197
Appendix 5 
Selective collation of the 1617 folio (H353) with the first 
and second editions......Page 201
Appendix 6
 Kilburne’s list of errors......Page 205
Appendix 7   Blayney’s ‘Account of the collation and revision of the   Bible’......Page 208
Abbreviations in notes on 1602 Bishops’ Bible with 
translators’ annotations......Page 211
Variations within the first edition......Page 212
Appendix 9 
Spelling changes to the current text......Page 369
Changes to compound words (alphabetical bymain part
of word)......Page 373
Annotated list of Bibles......Page 375
Works Cited......Page 378
General index......Page 381
Word index......Page 385
Index of biblical references......Page 389