Looking for a Douay-Rheims Bible?

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If you’re looking for a Douay-Rheims Bible, here are a few I’ve found.
If you know of any others please post details.
  1. HAYDOCK: Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible (2 vols)
A modern reprint of a 19th century study Bible in 2 big volumes with
very full traditional notes and commentary.

allcatholicbooks.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=ACB&Product_Code=AT25x2e&Category_Code=
  1. TAN: The Douay Rheims Bible. Tan Books & Publishers (June 1, 2002),
    ISBN:1930278241. Apparently a very handsome hardcover edition which
    unfortunately is already out-of-print.
  2. LORETO: Douay-Rheims Bible.
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  1. BARONIUS: The Holy Bible - Douay-Rheims Version.
Despite the hype, this edition apparently contains many typographical
errors and at least some copies are sloppily produced.

baroniuspress.com/bible/douay_rheims_bible.htm
  1. CATHOLIC TRUTH SOCIETY - The Holy Bible Douay Version (London:
    Catholic Truth Society, 1956).
This is a chunky little complete Douay Bible (5.5" x 4" x 2.4") long
out-of-print though copies can sometimes be found on eBay. I love mine!
  1. An online version of the Douay-Rheims Bible can be found at:
    drbo.org/
  2. A free Bible program called e-Sword, along with over 70 free Bibles including
    the Douay-Rheims, can be downloaded from:
e-sword.net/index.html

This is a great program and very easy to use. The site owner’s
motto is:

“Without payment you have received; without payment you are to give.”
(Mat 10:8 ISV)
 
I bought my Douay-Rheims Bible from EWTN 13 months ago. I will tell you that the two-volumes contain many, many commentaries, some by Bishops. It has 39 Imprintures so it is Catholic. It is a photo reproduction of the OT (1609) and NT (1582) so yousee it as they saw the original. It is a Big Bible (11"x 81/2") Also a dictionary and an encylopedia is included. You know it is a DIRECT translation of Jeromes Latin Vulgate. I paid $99.00 for it at EWTN. I dont use anything else now, I love it because it is so close to the Vulgate.
You wrote:
  1. HAYDOCK: Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible (2 vols)
A modern reprint of a 19th century study Bible in 2 big volumes with
very full traditional notes and commentary.
Yes this is it.
 
I bought my Douay-Rheims Bible from EWTN 13 months ago. I will tell you that the two-volumes contain many, many commentaries, some by Bishops. It has 39 Imprintures so it is Catholic. It is a photo reproduction of the OT (1609) and NT (1582) so yousee it as they saw the original. It is a Big Bible (11"x 81/2") Also a dictionary and an encylopedia is included. You know it is a DIRECT translation of Jeromes Latin Vulgate. I paid $99.00 for it at EWTN. I dont use anything else now, I love it because it is so close to the Vulgate.
You wrote:
  1. HAYDOCK: Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible (2 vols)
A modern reprint of a 19th century study Bible in 2 big volumes with
very full traditional notes and commentary.
Yes this is it.
 
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romano:
  1. BARONIUS: The Holy Bible - Douay-Rheims Version.
    Despite the hype, this edition apparently contains many typographical errors and at least some copies are sloppily produced.
I have this Bible and of all the Bibles I own ,this is the absolute best 'Quality" one I have ever seen! Where is a reference to your claim that is is “sloppily produced” and these “many” topographcal errors found in it?
Perhaps you have one that should not have been available (damaged seconds?) for retail sale?

I bought mine for $43.95 from
http://www.allcatholicbooks.com/Mer…k&Category_Code=

The Baronius has a very rich,real Moroccan leather, hard, but pliable, quality flexible cover,Gold edges,and very crisp comfortable to read text,It is a real treasure ,I don’t understand your comments.
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romano:
  1. BARONIUS: The Holy Bible - Douay-Rheims Version.
    Despite the hype, this edition apparently contains many typographical errors and at least some copies are sloppily produced.
I have this Bible and of all the Bibles I own ,this is the absolute best 'Quality" one I have ever seen! Where is a reference to your claim that is is “sloppily produced” and these “many” topographcal errors found in it?
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Perhaps you have one that should not have been available (damaged seconds?) for retail sale?

I bought mine for $43.95 from
http://www.allcatholicbooks.com/Mer…k&Category_Code=

The Baronius has a very rich,real Moroccan leather, hard, but pliable, quality flexible cover,Gold edges,and very crisp comfortable to read text,It is a real treasure ,I don’t understand your comments.

I have a Baronius too, which I bought at an eBay store, and it has been very sloppily assembled. The endpapers haven’t been laid down properly and are badly rippled. The gilt work on the page edges is atrocious and looks rough and cheap. The text blocks are not square to the page so the lines of print run at an angle.

As for the quality of the printing, it may look good to you but if you ever compare it with one of the Douay-Rheims published in the USA but MADE IN BELGIUM in the 50s you’ll see a big difference.

I have one published by The Douay Bible House, New York, in 1955 and the print quality is vastly superior to the Baronius - much blacker and sharper and easier to read.

I get a feeling that maybe I got stuck with a reject Baronius. Or one produced in the UK.

I saw the mention of typographical errors in a review at, I think, Amazon where it listed several. I haven’t found any myself because I prefer to read my 1955 Belgian printing. I also prefer not to have those ugly and poorly reproduced illustrations that are found in the Baronius.

Admittedly the leather cover on the Baronius is nice, although even there they’ve spoiled it as the blocking on the spine is off center.

My advice to anyone reading this would be to go for a 50s edition of the Douay-Rheims if you can find one in good condition. The text is exactly the same, they all seem to have the Challoner notes, and the quality of production would be very hard to beat.
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jpy15026 said:
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. . . . I have this Bible and of all the Bibles I own ,this is the absolute best 'Quality" one I have ever seen! Where is a reference to your claim that is is “sloppily produced” and these “many” topographcal errors found in it?
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Go to Amazon and read the review of the Baronius by Publius:

amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0895550008/qid=1107681813/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7263732-1539835?v=glance&s=books

He says he “found at least two typographical errors in the Book of Daniel, the word “not” is left out of the last verse of the Book of Jonas, and “Juda” is spelled “Jada” at one point in the Book of Zacharias.”

He’s right about Jonas 4.11. My 1955 Douay reads: " that know not how to distinguish." The Baronius reads: “that know how to distinguish.” The KJV, BTW, reads: “that cannot discern.”

My Baronius, BTW, was published in the UK in 2003.
 
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romano:
I have a Baronius too, which I bought at an eBay store, and it has been very sloppily assembled. The endpapers haven’t been laid down properly and are badly rippled. The gilt work on the page edges is atrocious and looks rough and cheap. The text blocks are not square to the page so the lines of print run at an angle.

Yep sounds like you got a “reject” The one I bought from allcatholicbooks.com is perfect!
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I wish I knew where to get the original DR, from prior to the Challoner revision. It wold be interesting to compare.
 
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jpy15026:
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romano:
I have a Baronius too, which I bought at an eBay store, and it has been very sloppily assembled. The endpapers haven’t been laid down properly and are badly rippled. The gilt work on the page edges is atrocious and looks rough and cheap. The text blocks are not square to the page so the lines of print run at an angle.

Yep sounds like you got a “reject” The one I bought from allcatholicbooks.com is perfect!
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Yes,I think so too. But have you checked Jonas 4:11 ?
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Digitonomy:
I wish I knew where to get the original DR, from prior to the Challoner revision. It wold be interesting to compare.
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You can find the full text of the 1582 Rheims NT in the original spelling in Samuel Bagster’s
THE ENGLISH HEXAPLA (1841) in a parallel text edition along with five other early English translations (Wycliffe; Tyndale; Cranmer; Geneva; KJV). This is the only place I’ve been able
to find it.

A beautifully produced facsimile of the Bagster - ‘The 1841 English Hexapla Facsimile’ - is currently available from:

greatsite.com/facsimile-repr…xapla-1841.html

But it’s EXPENSIVE! And copies of the original edition that occasionally appear on the market cost even more. But what a great book!

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romano:
Yes,I think so too. But have you checked Jonas 4:11 ?
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The topo is there , (it’s missing the word “not”) That’s why we need multiple Bibles.I always like to compare versions ( I have six) when studying.
 
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Digitonomy:
I wish I knew where to get the original DR, from prior to the Challoner revision. It wold be interesting to compare.
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Dear Digitonomy: I bring you good tidings!

You can get, not the one revised by Bishop Challoner, but the ‘original’ :eek: 1582 Rheims New Testament on CD from the following link:

dowayrhemes.com

I’d love to find a printed facsimile though I doubt there has ever been one.
 
The Baronius is just OK. The Morrocan Leather pails in comparison to a Cambridge or even Oxford bible. It is thick and narrow and the print is not that nice. I think that the Lareto print is nicer, so I took it to a book binder and had it recovered with leather (also had all the helps and pictures moved to the back!)

Comet
 
I use the internet.

drbo.org/

I love to use it as a cross-reference. The concordance is excellent on this site.

God :blessyou:
 
FYI: I just got my Baronius Press DR this week and checked the error noted to be in Jonas 4:11. It is fixed in my (2005) edition. I can’t speak for the other errors, as I don’t know what they were, specifically. Anyone out there know?

SG257
 
If you know of any others please post details.
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Fireside Family Bible

This is a Family Bible of the Douay-Rheims translation put out by Fireside Publishing, which you can get for about $25.

A description from Christianbooks.com:

This Bible is translated from the Latin Vulgate, diligently compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and other languages. Features: full color presentation page; twelve page family record section; Scripture “call-outs” of favorite verses; white padded cover with gold page edges; acid-neutral Bible paper. Special sections also included: celebration of the Eucharist; art masterpieces of The Life of Christ; Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Rosary; the Way of the Cross.
 
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