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The English "Hexapla"   -  Printed in 1841 by Samul Bagster and Sons of London, England -  It contains six of the most important English language translantions of the New Testament, all arranged in parallel columns to provide  textual comparison. It includes: The Wycliffe version of 1380 (the first English New Testament), The Tyndale version of 1534 (the first English-printed New Testament), The Great Bible of 1539 (often considered the first Authorized English Bible), The Geneva 1557 (a landmark Bible with many firsts), The Rheims 1582 (the first Roman Catholic version), and the 1611 King James First Edition in parallel format. As a bonus the original Greek is displayed at the top of each page.
The Great Bible - Notes - "We have also (as ye may see) added many hands both in the margin of this volume and in the text, upon the which we purposed to have made in the end of the Bible (in a table by themselves) certain godly annotations: but forasmuch as yet there hath not been sufficient time ministered to the king's most honorable Council for the oversight and correction of such annotations, we will therefore omit them till their more convenient leisure, doing now no more but beseech thee most gentle reader, that when thou comest at such a place where a hand doth stand...and thou canst not attain to the meaning and true knowledge of that sentence, then do not rashly presume to make any private interpretation thereof but submit thyself to the judgement of those that are godly learned in Christ Jesus"
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The Great Bible - Printing - Like Tyndale's Bible, The Great Bible was printed in Europe.