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The Bible was printed in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, present-day Czech Republic. The text of the Bible represents the fourth version of the Czech Bible translation from Latin (the first version was made before 1360). The Bible consists of more than 610 pages. It was published at the expense of four rich Prague citizens.
The first printed complete Bible is the "Bible of Prague" from 1488. Another Czech Bible printed before the year 1501 is the "Bible of Kutná Hora", printed in 1489. All these texts were translated from the Vulgate. The first translation from the original languages into Czech was the Bible of Kralice, first published in years 1579–1593. The ...
The important Prague publishing company Melantrich, established in 1897, is named after him. Melantrich himself established a small printing workshop in Prague, which gradually became a company of European significance. The Melantrich's Bible, probably his most important book, was published five times between 1549 and 1577. [1]
The Wenceslas Bible [1] (German: Wenzelsbibel) or the Bible of Wenceslaus IV (Czech: Bible Václava IV. ) is a multi-volume illuminated biblical manuscript written in the German language . The manuscript was commissioned by the King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (that time also the King of the Romans ) and made in Prague in the 1390s.
The first printed Bible was published in 1488 (the Prague Bible). The first translation from the original languages (Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek) was the Kralice Bible from 1579, the definitive edition published in 1613. The Bible of Kralice was and remains in wide use. Among modern translations the Ecumenical Version of 1979 is commonly used.
Leskovec-Dresden Bible or Dresden Bible (Bible leskovecko-drážďanská or Bible drážďanská) was the oldest known manuscript with the complete Bible translation from Latin into Czech language, and the oldest complete Bible in any of the Slavic languages. Destruction of the library of the Catholic University of Leuven, 1914
Skaryna arrived in Prague by 1517. According to one hypothesis, he had been a student at Charles University in Prague, but there is no documentary evidence of this. In the same year, he rented a printing house from a merchant named Severin [7] [8] in Prague and started publishing a new translation of the Bible with his own prefaces.
According to Wycliffe Bible Translators, in September 2024, speakers of 3,765 languages had access to at least a book of the Bible, including 1,274 languages with a book or more, 1,726 languages with access to the New Testament in their native language and 756 the full Bible. It is estimated by Wycliffe Bible Translators that translation may be ...