Miniature Book News, Number 83, December 1994 Page: 4
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[Below listed are the miniature items
in the Houghton exhibit and catalogue.
The number before each text refers
to the number in the exhibit and/or
catalogue. ]
51. John Taylor (1580-1653). Verbum
Sempiternum <1614>. MS copy (1615)
by Esther Inglis Kello (1571-1624).
64, 5 x 3.5 cm, 262 p.
The Verbum Sempiternum consisted
of two parts, the Old Testament, titled
Verbum Sempiternum and the New
Testament, called Salvator Mundi.
Taylor abbreviated and versified the
Bible's narratives within a tiny compass,
announcing to his readers that
With care and pains out of the
sacred book,
This little Abstract I for thee
have took.
Taylor, a much-practiced author of
tracts and pamphlets whose titles
and texts more often than not were
filled with alliterative and rhyming
"merry conceits of Wit and mirth"
(STC 23739), compressed David's
seduction of Bathsheba and murderous
dismissal of Uriah into thirteen words:Day massacre with her family. Trained
in calligraphy by her mother, the young
Esther enjoyed royal patronage. When
she copied the Verbum Sempiternum
for her "well-loved" son Samuel, he
was about eighteen, possibly younger,
and may have been studying at
Edinburgh.
Esther Kello had her book bound in
embroidered green silk in a dos-a-dos
binding, a back-to-back arrangement
often used in the seventeenth century
to join two books, for example, the
Book of Common Prayer and the Hymnal.
An extant 1616 print edition of the
Verbum Sempiternum was also bound
dos-a-dos.
In the Epistle to her "deare blessed
child" Esther Kello equated the
much-abriged Verbum Sempiternum
with "the full somme" of "God's Sacred
Law." It is a startlingly unfamiliar
equation and suggests the extent to
which pars pro toto ruled among
Protestants in the early seventeenth
century.
52. (John Taylor). Verbum Sempiternum
<1614>. London, T. Ilive, 1724?
5.8 x 4.3 cm, (144) leaves.Affection blinds him on Vriah's In succeeding ages, printers and
wyfe publishers modified Taylor's book,
T'accomplish wch, her husband turning David's "affection" for Bathsheba
lost his life. to "lust": "He sees and lusts to have
Uriah's Wife." Dedications changed
The year after Taylor's book appeared with royal accessions: addressed in
in London, Esther Inglis Kello copied 1614 to "Charles, Prince of Britain"
it for her son Samuel. Esther Inglis, (Old Testament) and "Anna Queene
or English, had' come to England as of Great Britaine" (New Testament),
an infant fleeing the St. Bartholomew's by 1627 the Verbum Sempiternum
.I . '.J*BIBLE HISTORY. I
i ^ w1iffl ^ a w0"11"wn, .wlose n^ie
was Eve; ad hlie put
..... them ils a gnrden, wlhcre
IB ~ \Jneeded not a Ihouse; th e
beasts, likewise, were all
, playfi!l Mid tame, an
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1 ~T'- -::-~!~flJ There , was but one
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Ithecy sliould not cat vet
Exhibit 72. History of the Bible. Cooperstown, H. & E. Phinney, 1839. A later, and
provincial, printing of Bible History (see Exhibit 67) appeared with changed text and a
distinctly classical Adam.4
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Edison, Julian I. Miniature Book News, Number 83, December 1994, periodical, December 1994; St. Louis, Missouri. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9415/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.