The New International Encyclopædia/Bible, Curious Editions of

BIBLE,. Besides those issues of the book which have historical importance are those notable for curious errors, or for incidents of publication. The followang is a list of the more familiar of these, with their peculiar designations:

The earliest book known printed from movable metal types is the Latin Bible issued by Gutenberg at Mainz, A.D. 1452-56; also known as the Mazarin Bible, because the copy which first attracted the notice of bibliographers was discovered by Debure in 1760 among the books of Cardinal Mazarin (d. 1661).

A folio edition of the Biblia Latina, of the time of Gutenberg, the pages of which contain two columns of thirty-six lines.

So called from its rendering of Psalm xci. 5: &ldquo;Afraid of bugs by night.&rdquo; Our present version reads: &ldquo;Terror by night.&rdquo; A.D. 1551.

The Geneva version is sometimes called the Breeches Bible, from its rendering of Genesis iii. 7: &ldquo;Making themselves breeches out of fig-leaves.&rdquo; This translation of the Scriptures &mdash; the result of the labors of the English exiles at Geneva &mdash; was the English Family Bible during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and till supplanted by the present authorized version of King James I. The New Testament appeared in 1577; the whole Bible 1561.

From a remarkable typographical error which occurs in Matt. v. 9: &ldquo;Blessed are the place-makers,&rdquo; instead of peacemakers. 1562.

From its rendering of Jeremiah, viii. 22: &ldquo;Is there no treacle [instead of balm] in Gilead?&rdquo; 1568.

From the same text, but translated &lsquo;rosin&rsquo; in the Douai version. 1609.

From the respective renderings of Ruth iii. 15 &mdash; one reading that &ldquo;She went into the city&rdquo;; the other has it that &ldquo;He went.&rdquo; 1611.

From the fact that the negative has been left out of the Seventh Commandment (Ex. xx. 14), for which the printer was fined £300. 1631.

One inch square and half an inch thick, was published at Aberdeen. 1670.

So named from the head-line of the twentieth chapter of Luke, which reads as &ldquo;The parable of the vinegar,&rdquo; instead of the &lsquo;vineyard.&rsquo; 1717.

We are told by Cotton Mather that in a Bible printed prior to 1702, a blundering typographer made King David exclaim that &ldquo;Printers [instead of &lsquo;princes&rsquo;] persecuted him without a cause.&rdquo; See Psalm cxix. IGl.

So called from an error in the sixteenth verse of the Epistle of Jude, the word &lsquo;murderers&rsquo; being used instead of &lsquo;murmurers.&rsquo; 1801.

&ldquo;And it shall come to pass that the fishes will stand upon it,&rdquo; etc. Ezek. xlvii 10. Printed in 1806.

&ldquo;I discharge thee before God.&rdquo; L Tim. v. 21. Printed in 1806.

&ldquo;If any man come to me, and hate not his father. . . yea, and his own wife also,&rdquo; etc. Luke xiv. 26. Printed in 1810.

&ldquo;Who hath ears to ear, let him hear.&rdquo; Matt. xiii. 43. Printed in 1810.

&ldquo;And Rebekah arose, and her camels.&rdquo; Genesis xxiv. 61. Printed in 1823.

&ldquo;Persecuted him that was born after the spirit to remain, even so it is now.&rdquo; Gal. iv. 29. This typographical error, which was perpetuated in the first 8vo Bible printed for the Bible Society, takes its chief importance from the curious circumstances under which it arose. A 12mo Bible was being printed at Cambridge in 1805, and the proof-reader, being in doubt as to whether or not he should remove a comma, applied to his superior, and the reply, penciled on the margin, &ldquo;to remain,&rdquo; was transferred to the body of the text and repeated in the Bible Society's 8vo edition of 1805-06, and also in another 12mo edition of 1819.

Wholly printed and bound in twelve hours, but only 100 copies struck off. 1877.