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Bible of the Bear (La Biblia, que es, los Sacros Libros del Vieio y Nueuo Testamento)

Photo: Front Cover
Front Cover
Title Page
Title Page Illustration
Preface
Page 1126
Back Cover
Collection ID
BIB.001153
Type
Bible - Printed Book
Date
1569
Geography
Basel, (Switzerland)
Language
Spanish
Medium
Printed on Paper
Dimensions
10.5 × 8.2 × 3.1 in. (26.7 × 20.9 × 8 cm)
Exhibit Location
On View in History of the Bible, The King James Bible

In 1569, printer Thomas Guarinus published the first complete Spanish Bible in Basel, Switzerland. It’s often called the Biblia del Oso, or “Bible of the Bear,” because of the printer’s emblem on the title page, which shows a bear grasping for honey in the trunk of a tree. It was translated by the Spanish Reformer Casiodoro de Reina (1520–1594). For the Old Testament, he may have used earlier translations, but he compared them against Hebrew and Latin editions. The New Testament is based on Erasmus’s editions of the Greek texts. De Reina’s Bible was eventually revised by another Protestant Reformer, Cipriano de Valera, and published in 1602.

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