File:KJV-King-James-Version-Bible-first-edition-title-page-1611.xcf
Summary
Frontispiece to the King James' Bible, 1611, shows the Twelve Apostles at the top. Moses and Aaron flank the central text. In the four corners sit Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, authors of the four gospels, with their symbolic animals. At the top, over the Holy Spirit in a form of a <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dove" class="mw-redirect" title="Dove">dove</a>, is the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tetragrammaton" class="mw-redirect" title="Tetragrammaton">Tetragrammaton</a> "יהוה" ("YHWH").
The title page text reads:
THE HOLY BIBLE,
Conteyning the Old Teſtament,
AND THE NEW:
Newly Tranſlated out of the Originall tongues: & with the former Tranſlations diligently compared and reuiſed, by his Maiesties speciall Comandement.
Appointed to be read in Churches.
Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings moſt Excellent Maiestie.
ANNO DOM. 1611 .
At bottom is "C. Boel ſecit in Richmont."
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| current | 10:36, 4 January 2017 |  | 1,667 × 2,607 (10.92 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | Frontispiece to the King James' Bible, 1611, shows the Twelve Apostles at the top. Moses and Aaron flank the central text. In the four corners sit Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, authors of the four gospels, with their symbolic animals. At the top, over the Holy Spirit in a form of a <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dove" class="mw-redirect" title="Dove">dove</a>, is the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tetragrammaton" class="mw-redirect" title="Tetragrammaton">Tetragrammaton</a> "יהוה" ("YHWH"). <p>The title page text reads:<br>THE <big>HOLY BIBLE,</big><br>Conteyning the Old Teſtament,<br><i><small>AND THE NEW:</small><br>Newly Tranſlated out of the Originall tongues: & with the former Tranſlations diligently compared and reuiſed, by his Maiesties speciall Comandement.<br>Appointed to be read in Churches.<br>Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings moſt Excellent Maiestie.</i><br>A<small>NNO</small> D<small>OM</small>. 1611 . </p> At bottom is "<i>C. Boel ſecit in Richmont.</i>" |
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