... the book's annotator as John Bois (1561–1644), one of the principal translators of the King James Bible of 1611. The article explains why this and other material pertaining to Bois and the King James Version has previously been overlooked and considers how further evidence might be uncovered in the future...

...Jeffrey Alan Miller The part played by the Geneva Bible in the composition of the King James Version (1611) has been a vexed issue from the very commissioning of the King James translation in 1604. This essay sheds new light on the issue by focusing in detail on two extant drafts of the King James...

... at a confer- ence at Hampton Court — now frequented by the King’s Men — that the Geneva Bible should be replaced with what would become the Authorized King James Version.19 There are many accounts of this event from perspec- tives that usually bear an obvious bias toward either the puritans...

... the events of the Passion, Jesus sees an impoverished widow con- tribute a few small coins to the Temple treasury. In Luke, according to the King James Bible, Jesus looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the trea- surie. And hee saw also a certain poore widow, casting...

... English Bible, the early modern English Bible is often seen as an evolving project, a series of drafts toward “the most important book in English reli- gion and culture, the King James Bible,” the translation of 1611 that fixed the biblical text and paratext in the vernacular for centuries.4 Yet...

... from Civil War historiography, but also from a special interest in the King James Bible, whose oppositional relationship to the Geneva Bible has profoundly colored its Elizabethan reception history. In 1604, calling for a new translation, King James took exception to the Geneva notes as “sedi...

... of a Puritan in the late sixteenth century. Akin to Ralph Hanna’s description of the Wycli te Bible in the late fourteenth and early fteenth centuries, so it was with the Geneva Bible: until the publication of the King James Bible, it was, for all intents and purposes, “the only game in town In terms...

... sphere. It was presumably first used as it was intended, but it was subsequently removed from its exalted place at the pulpit, most likely in the early to mid-­seventeenth century, when the King James Bible sup- planted it by official decree. At some point, it was heavily damaged. The volume now...

... the produc- ers of the King James Bible, he even refused variant readings. These accre- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 47:3, September 2017 DOI 10.1215/10829636-4200092  © 2017 by Duke University Press tions, he judged, distracted readers from God’s own words; moreover...

..., 192 pp.; 35 illus., 5 figs. $55.00. Moore, Helen, and Julian Reid, eds. Manifold Greatness: The Making of the King James Bible. Oxford: Bodleian Library, in association with the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., 2011. 208 pp.; 73 color plates. Paper $35.00. Pettegree, Andrew...

...- Rankin / Tudor Courtly Reading of a Wycliffite Bible  589 Figure 1. EDOVERDUS SEXTUS. Leaf added to Cambridge University Library, MS Mm.2.15, fol. 274r, associating the book with King Edward VI. Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. 590  Journal...

... — suggesting a text in process — and presenting to us a finished narrative: a text complete. Most visual repre- sentations of Matthew writing show the opening words (“Liber generatio- nis,” or — as the King James Version has it — “The book of the generation...

.... Mandelbrote / Gold Leaf and Graffiti  619 Figure 2. Opening folio of volume two of the 1462 Mainz bible showing an illumination of King Solomon and the donation inscription from Justinian Kidd to Edward Orwell in 1581, as well as a seventeenth-­century shelfmark. Reproduced with the permission...

... the Kings of England and France.” See Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII , 2nd ed. rev., ed. James Gairdner and R. H. Brodie, 21 vols. in 37 pts. (London: HMSO, 1920; repr. Vaduz, Liechtenstein: Kraus, 1965), vol. 5, no. 1532. 10 Quoted from the Act of Attainder...

... of the previous tragedies, rescues Thomas Cranmer from disgrace at the hands of the king’s closest advisors and receives from the archbishop a prophecy of a coming golden age ruled by the “maiden phoenix” and her heir, James I, “as great in fame as she was” (5.4.40, 46). This prophecy and the birth...

... creates a powerful and disturbing com- parison between the cross as a place from which to teach and a bishop’s, or indeed king’s, chair as a seat of authority. Christ’s “chayer” turns the cross into a pulpit. In the process, the author of this sermon asks its hearers or readers to imagine...

.... [Prose translation of the Armenian mystic poet and theologian's prayer book and hymnic odes.] Henry VIII, king of England. Henry VIII and Martin Luther: The Second Controversy, 1525–1527 . Edited by Richard Rex. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2021. xvi, 306 pp. gbp 70.00. [Critical edition...

...” resting beneath London’s foundations, and the “sins and crimes of the kings who rode under the tattered banners of Arthur.” He warns Cromwell: “These are old stories . . . but some people, let us remem- ber, do believe them.”1 Outlining the legendary history of Britain through the stories of Albina...

... to Catholic and Reformed traditions. The problem reared its head again in the political and religious discord after the Restoration in 1660, triggering the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when King James II attempted to expand religious toleration for English Catholic subjects. The Toleration Act of 1689...

... and romance formulations Loosely adapted by the author of Ezekiel from the name of the seventh-cen- tury Lydian King Gyges, in biblical accounts the two names mark geo- graphical and cultural estrangement from the Hebrew people.6 Magog is the name of a territory where Gog lives, in “thy place from...