Item 28: The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the Original Tongues: And With the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty's Special Command , 1794
Scope and Contents
This collection contains over forty Holy Bibles and other Christian texts as donated by Mr. Charles Whatley. These materials are largely in English, with a few printed in the original tongues of the Protestant and Jewish faiths. The collection also contains 41 individual wooden boxes, complete with topical embellishments. These boxes were handcrafted by Mr. Whatley for the express purpose of storing their respective texts.
Dates
- Creation: 1794
Extent
1 boxes (Holy Bible revised at the command of the King for use in churches, printed at the Clarendon Press in Oxford ) : This item is stored in a handcrafted wooden box embellished with painted animals and designs copied from "figures on box taken from a woman's purse dug up on the English Coast in a ship burial" per Charles Whatley's notes; red leather cover; wear on spine
Language of Materials
English
Repository Details
Part of the Thomason Special Collections & SHSU University Archives Repository