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The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Translated into the Indian language, and ordered to be printed by the commissioners of the united colonies in New-England, at the charge, and with the consent of the Corporation in England for the Propagation of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New-England.
Cambridg [sic] [Mass.] : Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson, 1661
Physical Description: [264] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Call number: DA661/ B528n
Accession number: 01890, 02804
Notes: Text in Massachuset; printed in double columns, with special t.p., Wusku Wuttestamentum Nul-Lordumun Jesus Christ Nuppoquohwussuaeneumun.
First edition of the first New Testament printed in the New World. Translated by John Eliot; cf. Evans. Later issued as part of the Massachuset Bible in 1663 and (with special t.p. dated 1680) in 1685.
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Languages: Massachuset
Genre: Bible selections
Region: North America
