1597 Geneva Bible Leaf: Book of Romans 13:11-15:19 "Brotherly Love

[Geneva Bible] Single Leaf Page from Geneva Bible Book of Romans. 1597 Geneva bible leaf from the book of romans 13:11-15:19 page " brotherly love" vgc. London 1597. Over 400 year old Geneva "Breeches" bible leaf printed in London by the deputies of Christopher Barker "printer to the queenes most excellent maieftie anno dom. 1597 " - the book of romans. Recto has romans 13:11 - 14:14 "brotherly love & gentiles called" verso of the leaf has romans 14:15 - 15:19 "the weake brethren & god the judge" Leaf measures 10 3/8" x 7" (262mm x 177mm) printed on old cotton linen paper also called rag paper. The Geneva Bible is one of the most historically significant (truncated) translations of the Bible into English, preceding the King James Version by 51 years. It was the primary Bible of 16th-century English Protestantism and was the Bible used by William Shakespeare and Oliver Cromwell. It was one of the Bibles taken to America on the Mayflower. This version of the Bible is significant because, for the very first time, a mechanically printed, mass-produced Bible was made available directly to the general public which came with a variety of scriptural study guides and aids (collectively called an apparatus), which included verse citations that allow the reader to cross-reference one verse with numerous relevant verses in the rest of the Bible, introductions to each book of the Bible that acted to summarize all of the material that each book would cover, maps, tables, woodcut illustrations and indices. The annotations which are an important part of the Geneva Bible were Calvinist and Puritan in character, and as such they were disliked by the ruling pro-government Anglicans of the Church of England, as well as King James I, who commissioned the "Authorized Version", or King James Bible, in order to replace it. Surprisingly, the Geneva notes were included in a few editions of the King James version, even as late as 1715. (Inventory #: 16768)