Greatsite's 1611 Facsimile KJV, Reduced-Size Reference Edition (ISBN 9781424323449), is approximately two-thirds the size of the original King James Bible printed in 1611. Even so, it is a large volume, measuring 11 1/8 x 9 5/16 x 3 1/4 inches in dimensions and weighing about 10 pounds.
This edition has a sewn binding, heavy cream-colored paper, and almost no ghosting. The cover is black imitation leather over boards. Unlike the Oxford and Hendrickson 1611 KJV reproductions, this edition is printed in the same blackletter (Gothic) text used in the original. You may find it challenging to read. I show some blackletter oddities starting at the 26:16 point.
The font is roughly 11 points in height.
The text is that of the "He" Bible of 1611, which Scrivener thought was the second printing, but which is now recognized as the first. It differs in many ways from more modern KJV Bibles. I discuss a few of the more interesting differences in the video, beginning at the 22:51 point. (The vast majority of differences are trivial.)
Detailed Contents
00:00 Dimensions, margins, layout, font ... (four charts)
00:37 Size compared to the Oxford Quartercentenary Edition and the Cambridge Cameo
01:15 Dimensions
01:30 Page layout
03:00 The font in the text
04:30 References, alternative translations, and literal renderings
05:30 The decorative drop caps, including Pan, Poseidon, and Daphne
07:40 Paper qualities
08:11 Print non-uniformity (fading)
08:28 The binding is sewn
09:08 The red and yellow head and tail bands
09:30 The copyright page
09:57 The illustrated title page
10:58 The epistle dedicatory
11:15 The translators to the reader
11:35 The calendar of readings for Morning and Evening Prayer
13:15 The readings appear to be the same as those in the Book of Common Prayer
14:00 The calendar is explained in an appendix to Gordon Campbell's "Bible, The Story of the King James Version"
14:16 The almanac, showing certain holy days between 1603 and 1641
14:40 A table for finding Easter
15:07 The table and calendar of lessons throughout the year
15:35 The table of contents
15:50 The Great Seal of the Realm
16:23 The genealogies
17:18 The map and map index
17:55 The "He" and "She" Bibles of 1611, Ruth 3.15
19:06 The duplication of text in Exodus 14.10
19:40 The original 1611 KJV does NOT qualify as a "Pure Cambridge Edition"
20:03 The KJV on the translation continuum
21:29 A close-up look at the font
22:02 The font compared to that in the 1526 Tyndale New Testament
22:22 The font compared to that in the Schuyler Canterbury
22:41 The font compared to that in the Cambridge Cameo
22:51 **Differences between the 1611 KJV and modern KJVs**
23:23 Mark 10.18: "There is no man good" or "There is none good"?
24:16 Ezekiel 24.7: "poured it upon the ground" or "poured it not upon the ground"?
25:03 John 15.20: "greater then the Lord" or "greater than his lord"?
25:41 Matthew 16.16: "Thou art Christ" or "Thou art the Christ"?
26:16 **Observations on the blackletter text**
26:28 Matthew 6.19 - the pilcrow (paragraph mark), the 'r' that looks like a '2', the long 's', the initial 'u' written as a 'v'
28:24 Matthew 4.18 - the 'I' that looks and sounds like a 'J', the broken 'w', the long 's' contrasted with an 'f'
29:31 Matthew 4.13 - the hyphen that looks like a slanted equal sign, the initial 'u' looks like a 'b'
30:38 Matthew 4.11 - the 'v' written like a 'u' in 'deuill',
30:58 Matthew 5.32 - a typo: 'saving' written as 'saning' because a 'u' was placed upside down
31:22 Matthew 5.15 - some typos in the notes
31:49 Matthew 6.20 - the ampersand
32:23 Matthew 7.6 - perhaps 'rent' meant 'rend' in 1611?
33:03 James 1.9 - the 'x' looks like an 'r'
33:24 The New Testament Title Page
33:56 Summary
27 июл 2024
