The preservation booklet and completed studies
Booklet source notes
All references used in the free preservation guide, with descriptions and source links.
The 1611 translators’ own preface
Read their explanation of translation, earlier versions and marginal alternatives.
Scrivener’s Greek New Testament
Primary preface explaining his reconstruction of the readings represented by the Authorized Version.
Manuscripts & digital facsimiles
Codex Sinaiticus Project
Digitized manuscript images, transcription, history and conservation from the four partner institutions.
Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts
High-resolution manuscript images and a searchable manuscript library.
New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room
The INTF workspace for Greek New Testament manuscript data and images.
Printed texts & textual history
Erasmus, Novum Instrumentum omne (1516)
Title page and bibliographic image record for Erasmus’s first printed Greek New Testament.
Erasmus and the Comma Johanneum
Henk Jan de Jonge’s historical study of Erasmus and the disputed passage, in Leiden University’s open repository.
The Johannine Comma: textual history
Peer-reviewed study by Rodrigo Barbosa Galiza and John W. Reeve.
English Bible history
The 1611 King James title page
Image and public bibliographic record of the first-edition title page.
King James Bible: 1 John 5:7
Modern and 1611 spelling displayed side by side.
The King James Bible: A Short History
Cambridge University Press front matter and bibliographic details for David Norton’s history.
Early writers & historical reception
Victor of Vita and AD 484
Latin text, English translation excerpt and discussion of the African confession.
Early Christian Writings
An index to translations and introductions for many early Christian texts.
Archaic Mark research file
University of Chicago investigation
The university account of the multidisciplinary work that identified former manuscript 2427 as a modern forgery.