BIBLE, English, 1620 | in needlework binding attributed to the Nuns of Little Gidding

From the Library of the Earls of Haddington

BIBLE, ENGLISH

The Holy Bible, contaning the Old Testament and the New. Newly translated out of the originall tongues... Robert Barker and John Bill, 1620

12mo, general title and New Testament title within illustrated borders, double column, rubricated, Genealogies at the beginning and Psalms at the end, CONTEMPORARY EMBROIDERED BINDING ASSOCIATED WITH THE NUNS OF LITTLE GIDDING, covers and spine with outer borders with text from Ecclesiastes, covers coats of arms in silver and various coloured threads, floral design on the spine, gauffered edges, binding slightly worn, particularly at edges and on spine, hinges repaired and slightly cracked

The Anglican community at Little Gidding in Cambridgeshire was founded by Nicholas Ferrar and his family in 1626, after they had fled London following the collapse of the Virginia Company in which they had heavily invested and the second outbreak of the plague. At Little Gidding they took on simple lives according to their faith, eschewing material possessions and focusing on religious instruction and prayer. The entire family were taught bookbinding by the daughter of a Cambridge bookbinder, and Ferrar's nieces completed the handiwork. A substantial number of seventeenth-century embroidered bindings have been attributed to the community, but it is not clear whether the current lot can be concretely attributed to it.

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