Earliest Bible or Commentary in your collection.

[johnny]

I was just wondering what is the earliest bible or book or even framed page,
That exists in your collection, (just out of pure interest)

 

[KeithW]

I don't own any antiquities.

The earliest Bible I own and have read and like is "Tyndale's New Testament" from 1534. It is the first Greek to English translation. This version has modern spelling.

The oldest book in me ebook collection which I have read and like is "On The Incarnation" by Athanasius, written about 318 AD.

 

[reaganmarsh]

This is a fun question.

Earliest actual old book I own is a 200 year old first American edition of John Owen's 'On Indwelling Sin' (which, incidentally, I won in a contest here on the PB).

Earliest reprinted old work I own is a collection of OT-era texts in a reader called 'The Ancient Near East' by James Pritchard.

 

[Username3000]

My oldest books are:

Church Psalmody: A Collection of Psalms and Hymns Adapted to Public Worship c.1847
A Manual of Homiletical and Pastoral Theology by William Garden Blaikie c.1873
Memoirs of M'Cheyne c.1892
The Poetical Works of William Cowper without a date, but it looks to be at least from the late 1800's/early 1900's

I also have a copy of The Popular Songs and Melodies of Scotland c.1906, which I think to be a rarity, at least in Western Canada.

 

[hammondjones]

I have my Great-Great-Grandfather's AV, which I think is roughly from 1880. It is huge.

 

[Rhys]

I had several pages from a 1547 Luther Bible, a 1599 Geneva, and a 1614 KJV. I stopped collecting because the resale value was only about half of what I paid.

 

[johnny]

I had several pages from a 1547 Luther Bible, a 1599 Geneva, and a 1614 KJV. I stopped collecting because the resale value was only about half of what I paid.

Wow that's impressive,
I was thinking of buying one once to hang on the wall as a reminder of where we have come from.
Perhaps they could be double framed so you could see both sides when you turned it around.
Anyway, just a bit of vanity I guess.

 

[Parakaleo]

I have books that came from trees that were probably several hundred years old.

 

[arapahoepark]

Honestly, probably from the 60s. Unless you are talking about works from antiquity (not the binding or paper it is printed on.)

 

[DMcFadden]

I have a framed page from a 1520s edition of the Luther NT.
. . . a framed page from the first printing of the first edition of the 1611 KJV.
. . . an early framed page from a Geneva Bible.
. . . an early framed page from a KJV Bible (1640s) x 2.

 

[johnny]

I have a framed page from a 1520s edition of the Luther NT.
. . . a framed page from the first printing of the first edition of the 1611 KJV.
. . . an early framed page from a Geneva Bible.
. . . an early framed page from a KJV Bible (1640s) x 2.

Is the page from the 1611 first edition from the "Great She" bible.
Or is it immpossible to tell from just one page?

 

[DMcFadden]

Can't tell. I bought it under the "representation" that it was from the FIRST printing of the 1611 KJV, 2 Kings 5. But, in the field of antiquities there is "more gravy than of grave" about the authenticity and datings of old dead things.

 

[PointyHaired Calvinist]

I have a first edition compact English Revised Version Bible from 1885. Ordered it without knowing it was a first edition!

 

[Jack K]

I have a book of Luther's sermons from the late 1700s, in German. It was given to my dad when he was a young man, as a gift from a woman for whom he did occasional work around the house. Years later, he also found inside its pages a $1000 note from the Bank of the United States, issued during the Andrew Jackson presidency. We've never had either appraised and have wondered which is worth more. My guess is the book.