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Name: The Holy Bible: Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: newly translated out of the originall tongues (London: By Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, anno 1611)
Detail: One of the seven extant books from Milton's library is the King James Bible of 1611, now in the British Library (part of the manuscript collection, MS Additional 32310). This was Milton's "family Bible," in which records of family history were recorded in the back. The "authorized" King James Version of the Bible was designed to replace the so-called Geneva Bible, the most popular Bible in England, whose notes nonetheless had a Puritan bias that the King thought "very partiall, untrue, seditious, and savouring too much, of dangerous, and traitorous conceits." Milton's copy contains many manuscript annotations and corrections.