Douay-Rheims - White Leather Hardcover

White leather hardcover, full sized edition of the Douay-Rheims

This full size edition of the Douay-Rheims is bound in Morrocan leather with the edges meticulously stitched to create and elegant and portable Bible. Engravings from the 1940 edition have been scanned and retouched to illustrate the Bible. A wonderful size for study using this traditional translation of the Bible.

Douay-Rheims (1582-1609). The earliest Catholic translation from the Latin Vulgate done in France by English Catholics exiled from Protestant England .The NT was published in Rheims in 1582; the OT at Douay in 1609. The Douay-Rheims was later revised by English Bishop Richard Challoner in the 18th century. The Old and New Testaments - from the 1899 edition published by John Murphy Company, Baltimore, Maryland. Imprimatur: James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore. This is the revision available today.

Features:

• Imprimatur
• Dedication Page
• Family Record Page
• Gilded Edges
• Ribbon Marker
• Map section
• Illustrated

Translation: Douay-Rheims - DR
Size: 6" x 8.25"
Binding: Leather
Pages: 1,512