Nov. 1, 1935 p.1: Library Displays Bibles This Week

“Exhibit of Special Editions and Correlated Publication is in Reading Room”

DR. KLEISS WILL SPEAK

The Bible display in the library this week and nest week is in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the printed English Bible. In commemoration of this anniversary also, Dr. Donald S. Kleiss, pastor of Greensboro’s Community church, will speak on the “History of the English Printed Bible” at a library tea in the reading room on Wednesday, November 6, at 5 o’clock.

In the Bible display, in the cases, are facsimile pages of Bibles printed from 1525 to 1611, and an exhibit of old Bibles loaned by members of the faculty and friends of the library.

In the reading room are a collection of books about the Bible, of books on the history of printing with reference to the Bible, and a small collection of children’s Bibles, as well as some interesting pamphlets on the relationship of the Bible to us.

Among the interesting facsimiles are the title page of Miles Coverdale’s first edition of the English printed Bible, printed in 1535; a page from the Bishop’s Bible, printed in 1568; and a page from the King James version, 1611, the most popular translation of the Bible. More copies of this version have been printed and sold than any other book in any other language.

Among the fascinating collection of books about the Bible, one of the most unusual is Potter’s “Is That in the Bible?” The children’s Bibles are lovely, and contain many pictures in full color. Some of the interesting pamphlets are: “What the Bible Can Do for Us Today,” “The English Bible and British and American Art,” and “The Influence of the English Bible upon the English Language and upon English and American Literature.”

The library wished to announce the gift of the Carnegie portrait by the Carnegie Foundation in honor of the celebration of the foundation’s 100th anniversary. This portrait has been received by the college, and will be on display in the reading room, along with a collection of pictures and books about Andrew Carnegie.