1569 First Complete Bible in Spanish La Biblia del Oso Reina – The Bear Bible

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1569 First Edition Bear Bible 1st Spanish La Biblia del Oso Reina

La Biblia, Que es, Los Sacros Libros Del Viejo y Nuevo Testamento. Transladada en Espanol.

In 1569, printer Thomas Guarinus published the first complete Spanish Bible in Basel, Switzerland. It’s often called the Biblia del Oso, or “Bible of the Bear,” because of the printer’s emblem on the title page, which shows a bear grasping for honey in the trunk of a tree. It was translated by the Spanish Reformer Casiodoro de Reina (1520–1594). For the Old Testament, he may have used earlier translations, but he compared them against Hebrew and Latin editions. The New Testament is based on Erasmus’s editions of the Greek texts. De Reina’s Bible was eventually revised by another Protestant Reformer, Cipriano de Valera, and published in 1602.

First Edition of the complete Bible in Spanish. Woodcut of a bear cub raiding a beehive on the title-page, two woodcut illustrations in the text and woodcut initials throughout. With the bookplates of Don A Canovas del Castillo and Oscar Benjamin Cintas, Cuban ambassador to the United States. Darlow & Moule 8472.