Message #24278

[Kilika]

What eSword uses is not "black letter". It's a later, 1612 and later, Roman type that is used. Look up an image of the 1611 text from the history thread. Pretty sure I have a link to one there.

The original Authorized Version was printed in "black letter" gothic style lettering which is very cursive and fancy, and hard to read. The first Roman type was done in 1612, but most were 1613 and later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackletter

Many use the Cambridge text. But now days one better pay attention to "which "Cambridge when asking for a Cambridge, each has become even worse than the previous.

You have a pre-1900 PCE, 1769 Scrivener text bible? If I'm not mistaken, that would be the Cambridge Standard text of 1769 by Scrivener, who had a split from using the F.A. Parris text (which Oxford stayed with). Could you send me an image of it's title page? Does it say "Cambridge" at the bottom?

The more I discuss this topic and research it, the more I'd like to see a KJB museum/preservation effort going on. All this stuff is a bit confusing at first, and for the record so people can compare real texts with real texts, based on real bibles the museum would use as references.

Apps like Blue Letter and eSword are nice, but they both need to have several other bibles available. I'd like to see one of just KJB editions, from the first Roman type in 1612, through the 1900 PCE and the Oxford Scofield Reference, at least the major ones.