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0521771005 - A Textual History of The King James Bible - by David Norton
Table of Contents



Contents




  List of illustrations page [x]
  Acknowledgements [xi]
  List of abbreviations [xii]
  PART 1 THE HISTORY
1   Making the text [3]
  Introduction [3]
  The beginnings of the King James Bible [4]
  Setting-up the work [6]
  Companies at work [11]
  MS 98 [15]
  Making the final version: John Bois’s notes [17]
  The annotated Bishops’ Bible [20]
  A contribution from the printer? [25]
  The final copy [26]
  Conclusion [27]
2   Pre-1611 evidence for the text [29]
  Introduction [29]
  MS 98 [30]
  Bois’s notes [34]
  The Bishops’ Bible of 1602 [35]
  Bod 1602 [37]
3   The first edition [46]
  A ‘Bible of the largest and greatest volume’ [46]
  A specimen page [47]
  Initials and space [51]
  Typographical errors [54]
  ‘Hidden’ errors [57]
4   The King’s Printer at work, 1612 to 1617 [62]
  Introduction [62]
  The second folio edition or ‘She’ Bible (H319) [65]
  The early quartos and octavos [73]
  The 1613 folio (H322) [76]
  The 1616 small folio, roman type (H349) [78]
  The 1617 folio (H353) [79]
  Conclusion [81]
5   Correcting and corrupting the text, 1629 to 1760 [82]
  The first Cambridge edition, 1629 (H424) [82]
  The second Cambridge edition, 1638 (H520) [89]
  Spelling in the Cambridge editions [93]
  Commercial competition and corruptions [94]
  A standard – or a new revision? [96]
  A hundred years of solicitude [99]
6   Setting the standard, 1762 and 1769 [103]
  Three Bibles [103]
  What Parris and Blayney did to the text [106]
  Why did Blayney’s become the standard text? [113]
7   The current text [115]
  Introduction [115]
  Should the text have been changed? Thomas Curtis and the Universities [116]
  The American Text [119]
  F. H. A. Scrivener and the Cambridge Paragraph Bible [122]
  Conclusion: a fossilised concord [125]
  PART 2 THE NEW CAMBRIDGE PARAGRAPH BIBLE
8   Variants and orthography [131]
  Two principles [131]
  The beginning of The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible [131]
  The variant readings [133]
  ‘Mere orthography’ [133]
  Names [146]
  Conclusion [148]
9   Punctuation and other matters [149]
  The original punctuation [149]
  The received punctuation [153]
  Punctuation in The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible [155]
  The italics [162]
  The margin, headers and chapter summaries [163]
  PART 3 APPENDICES
  1   Printer’s errors in the first edition [167]
  2   First and second edition variations [173]
  3   The King’s Printer’s list? [180]
  4   Selective collation of the 1613 folio (H322) with the first and second editions [184]
  5   Selective collation of the 1617 folio (H353) with the first and second editions [188]
  6   Kilburne’s list of errors [192]
  7   Blayney’s ‘Account of the collation and revision of the Bible’ [195]
  8   Variant readings in the KJB text [198]
  9   Spelling changes to the current text [356]
  Bibliography [362]
  General index [368]
  Word index [372]
  Index of biblical references [376]



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