1701 FIRST CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE PUBLISHED! Massive Folio in Elaborate Chronological Binding.

A very attractive, symbolic binding of the first Chronological Bible ever printed. And that in massive, folio format.  In Cambridge University's exhibition, Chronologies: Remember the Reformation, the present folio takes pride of place for being the first Chronological Bible, utilizing Archbishop Ussher's dating schema. Ussher's Annales veteris testamenti was first published in Latin in 1650, expanded to include the New Testament in 1654, and translated into English in 1658. It began a tradition of attempting to give a precise date to the first moment of Creation. He does. According to Ussher, the first day of creation was Sunday, the twenty-third of October, in the year 4004 B.C. He goes on to detail the events of the first chapter of Genesis, assigning a date to each stage of Creation’s unfolding. Ussher’s extraordinary precision here may seem unnecessary to us, but the calculation of the age of the world was a necessary foundation for all further temporal relations between events in