| Title | The lost books of the Bible; being all the gospels, epistles, and other pieces now extant attributed in the first four centuries to Jesus Christ, His apostles and their companions, not included, by its compilers, in the authorized New Testament; and, the recently discovered Syriac mss. of Pilate's letters to Tiberius, etc. Translated from the original tongues, illustrated from ancient paintings and missals ...
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| Published | Cleveland, O., New York, World Pub. Co. [1944]
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| Description | 7 p. leaves, 17-293 p. front., 1 illus., plates. 23 cm.
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| General Note | One plate accompanied by leaf with explanatory key, not included in the pagination.
William Hone's edition first published 1820 under title "The apocryphal New Testament," incorporating the translations of Jeremiah Jones for the apocryphal books and of Archbishop Wake for the Apostolic fathers. cf. M.R. James. The apocryphal New Testament, p. xv.
"Letters of Herod and pilate": p. 269-281.
"The lost gospel according to Peter": p. 282-286.
"A list of all the apocryphal pieces not now extant, mentioned by writers in the first four centuries of Christ, with the several works wherein they are cited or noticed." [By the Rev. Jeremiah Jones]: p. 287-290.
"A list of the Christian authors of the first four centuries, whose writings contain catalogues of the books of the New Testament." [By the Rev. Jeremiah Jones]" p. 291-293.
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| Subjects | Cleveland imprints -- 1944.
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| Other Authors | Hone, William, 1780-1842, ed.
Jones, Jeremiah, 1693-1724.
Wake, William, 1657-1737
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| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: BS 2832 A2 1926b
mq169959: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 101679] |
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