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Title:
'The Holy Bible conteyning the Old Testament and the New ...'
Level: Category
Parish Records
Level: Fonds
BROOMFIELD, St Mary the Virgin
Level: Sub-Fonds
MISCELLANEOUS
Scope and Content:
Full title: 'The Holy Bible conteyning the Old Testament and the New newlie translated out of the originall tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by his Maiesties speciall commandement. Appointed to be read in churches' (Bonham Norton and John Bill, London 1629).
Separate title page for New Testament: 'The New Testament of Ovr Lord and Saviovr Iesus Christ. Newly translated out of the originall Greeke: and with the former translations diligently compared and reuised, by his Maiesties speciall commandement. Appointed to be read in churches (Bonham Norton and John Bill, London 1629).
Both title pages include elaborate architectural designs; the first is signed 'Iaspar Isac fecit'.

Front and back endpapers each packed with two 15 mm. strips of parchment [not copyable using available technology, 2011]. Those at the front are blank except for traces of red and green colour which seem to match those at the back. Those at the back carry on each side fragments of a Latin text in an early medieval [?12th-century] hand, in one case with part of a note in a 17th-century hand. The text seems to be a narrative; the few complete or nearly complete words include '[S]tephan[us]'.

On front paste-down: label 'Ecclesiastical Art Exhibition 110'.
Dates of Creation:
1629
Extent:
1 volume (951 pp.)
Custodial History:
This volume - the 'Broomfield Bible' - belonged to King Charles I and has the royal arms embroidered on the covers. According to a note inside the front cover, it passed from the King to his librarian, Patrick Young (1584–1652), whose grand-daughter Sarah Atwood presented it to the parish of Broomfield in 1723.
Access:
Fragile: not to be produced. Digital images of binding and title pages (only) are available online.
Physical Characteristics:
Front cover detached (2011). Threads of the embroidery are coming loose and the volume cannot be handled without causing further damage.
310 x 220 x 65 mm.
Related Unit of Description:
See R. Christy, 'King Charles I's Bible at Broomfield' in Essex Review 16 (1907), pp. 89-93. A Book of Common Prayer embroidered in similar style is in the custody of the National Trust at Ham House, Surrey [2012].
Not Available:
Fragile: not to be produced

Key terms

TypeKey termsDescription
Personal Names Charles I King of Great Britain and Ireland; embroidered covers on Bible, c.(1629-1649)
Personal Names Patrick
Young 		Broomfield, post 1629
Personal Names Sarah
Atwood 		Broomfield, 1723
Place Names Broomfield 'The Broomfield Bible', 1629
Document Types Published work The Holy Bible conteyning the Old Testament and the New ..., 1629
Document Types Textile 'The Broomfield Bible', c.(1629-1649)