The Bible (The Bible is widely considered to be the best-selling book of all time)

                                                                     19th century Victorian Bible

                                                            A page from the Gutenberg Bible
                                              Old Bible from a Greek monastery
 Coloured title page from the Bishops' Bible quarto edition of 1569, the British Museum. Queen Elizabeth sits in the centre on her throne. The words on the four columns read justice, mercy, fortitude and prudence, attributing these traits to the queen. Text at the bottom reads "God Save the Queene".

                                              Fleeing Sodom and Gomorrah, Foster Bible
 The bible used by Abraham Lincoln for his oath of office during his first inauguration in 1861

Colored version of the Whore of Babylon illustration from Martin Luther's 1534 translation of the Bible.


A Bible handwritten in Latin, on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. The Bible was written in Belgium in 1407 AD, for reading aloud in a monastery.

             Shelves of the Bizzell Bible Collection at Bizzell Memorial Library

The Isaiah scroll, which is a part of the Dead Sea Scrolls, contains almost the whole Book of Isaiah. It dates from the 2nd century BCE.

                                          The Gutenberg Bible, the first printed Bible
 Title page from the first Welsh translation of the Bible, 1588. William Morgan (1545-1604)
                                                                         A Baroque Bible

                             Bible from 1150, from Scriptorium de Chartres, Christ with angels
                              Blanche of Castile and Louis IX of France Bible, 13th century
The Codex Gigas from the 13th century, held at the Swedish Royal Library in Stockholm


                   Imperial Bible, or Vienna Coronation Gospels from Wien (Austria), c 1500.


                                       Joshua 1:1 as recorded in the Aleppo Codex
                                                         The Kennicott Bible, 1476

 The Kennicott Bible, by Benjamin Kennicott, with illustration, Jonah being swallowed by the fish, 1476

An Armenian Bible, illuminated by Malnazar, Armenian) illuminator.
The Nash Papyrus (2nd century BCE) contains a portion of a pre-Masoretic Text, specifically the Ten Commandments and the Shema Yisrael prayer.

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