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Mamusse wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God naneeswe Nukkone Testament kah wonk Wusku Testament. Ne quoshkinnumuk nashpe Wuttinneumoh Christ noh asoowesit John Eliot. Nahohtôeu ontchet ôe printeuoomuk. Wusku Wuttestatmentum nul-Lordumun Jesus Christ nuppoquohwussuaeneumun
Cambridge [Mass.]: Samuel Green, 1685
Physical Description: [1220] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Call number: DA685/ B582m
Accession number: 06269; 03622 & 03623
Notes: The second edition of Eliot's Indian Bible, revised by Eliot and John Cotton.
First printed in Cambridge, Mass. in 1663.
A dedication to the Hon. Robert Boyle was printed on a single leaf and inserted into the presentation copies sent abroad. Cf. Pilling.
"Wusku Wuttestamentum Nul-Lordumun Jesus Christ nuppoquohwussuaeneumun", p. [857-1116], includes the Gospels in New Testament in the Massachuset language followed by the Books of Acts, Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians, Timothy, Titus, Hebrews, James, Peter, John and Revelations, and has separate dated title page with imprint: Cambridge, Printed for the Right Honourable Corporation in London, for the Propogation [sic] of the Gospel among the Indians in New-England 1680. First issued separately in 1681 (Wing B2759; Evans 279).
The Psalms of David, p. [1117-1216], has caption title: Wame ketoohomae uketoohomaongash David. The Psalms were evidently issued separately as well, probably in 1682.
Rules for Christian living, p. [1217-1218], by John Eliot, has caption title: Noowomoo Wnttinnoowaonk God.
JCB has 2 copies.
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Languages: Massachuset
Genre: Bible selections
Region: North America
