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Scottish ownership.- Bible, Greek.- Hē Kainē Diathēkē Novum testamentum, engraved pictorial title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, title and following f. outer margin frayed, water-stained, mostly at ends, occasional spotting, lightly browned, 18th century blind-ruled calf, corners worn, rubbed, [D&M 4678; STC 2796], 8vo, Cambridge, Thomas Buck, 1632. ⁂ The first Cambridge printing of the Greek New Testament. In this issue A1r, line 1 has 'Iesou Christou' entirely in uppercase. Provenance: '?Clifford Dufy'; 'Montague'; 'D.G. Forbes of Culloden' '(Duncan George Forbes, part of the family of Duncan Forbes (1685-1747), lawyer, judge and Whig politician, who played a major role in suppressing the Jacobite Rising of 1745); Culloden Library 1897 (17th-19th century ink inscriptions to front inner cover and title).
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