Douay-Rheims Bible - Flexcover Black Leather (#70089)

This full size edition of the Douay-Rheims is bound in Morrocan leather with the edges meticulously stitched to create an elegant 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.

A beautiful Bible with the words: "The Holy Bible" imprinted in gold foil on the front cover .
Imprimatur: James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore.
Size: 6" x 8.25"
Pages: 1,512