Month: August 2021
The Prisoner of Chillon (1816) Byron, George Gordon
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New Additions in Literature of the Sacred – Translations of the Bible and the Quran – and The Present State of the Jews (Synagoga Judaica or Juden Schul)
Pentateuch and the First New Testament, printed by William Tyndale (1526) The prophete Ionas with an introduccion, translated by William Tyndale (1531) The Coverdale Bible (1535) The Great Bible (1539) The Geneva Bible (1557) The Bishops’ Bible (1568) The Douay–Rheims Bible, the Douay portion (1610) The…
The Quran: English Translations
A number of different translations of the Quran are now available in our library (Literature of the Sacred). Compare the top ten most frequently used words (the content word vector) in these three translations: Translated out of Arabick into French.…
Achilles Tatius: The loves of Clitophon and Leucippe, Translations 1638 & 1855
Two translations of Achilles Tatius’s The loves of Clitophon and Leucippe are now available in our library. The two translators write very different introductions (see below). The 1855 translator comments little on his translation style but mentions that he is…
Corinthians 13 – “It is not the object discovered that matters, but the light that falls on it.”
The OED on the etymology and usage of ‘charity’: Two early types of this word appear in English: (1) cariteð , -teþ , (2) charité ; these are adoptions respectively of Old Northern French caritedh , -tet(þ) , (later, and modern Picard carité ), and the somewhat later central Old French charité (earlier charitet ); which…