Celebrating the Reopening of St John’s College’s Historic Libraries 4 October – 13 December 2024 Contents Introduction The Oldest … in Our Collections Royal Connections Words & Deeds: Women in Print(ing) From Bestiaries to Zoology: Animals through the Centuries Middle Eastern Manuscripts 1: Sciences Middle Eastern Manuscripts 2: Qurans & the Hadith Middle Eastern ManuscriptsContinue reading “Surprising Diversity : The Length and Breadth of St John’s Historic Collections”
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Mamusse wunneetupanatamwe up-biblum God (the Massachusett Bible), 1661-1663
St John’s College library has a copy of the first Bible published in America. It is written in the Massachusett dialect of Algonquian, a Native American language which missionary John Eliot learnt in part of his attempt to convert the Massachusett people to Christianity and literacy. In 1663, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Samuel Green published JohnContinue reading “Mamusse wunneetupanatamwe up-biblum God (the Massachusett Bible), 1661-1663”