After the year 1620 the publication of non-Catholic Bibles in Bohemia and Moravia ceased, and efforts were made to prepare Bibles for the Catholics. After some fruitless beginnings the work was entrusted to certain Jesuits, who took the Venice edition of 1506 as the basis, but relied greatly, especially for the Old Testament, on the Brethren’s Bible.
Between 1677 and 1715 the so-called St. Wenceslaus Bible was published at the expense of a society founded in honor of the saintMain author: Holy Bible [Jan BARNER; Jiří CONSTANTIUS; Matěj Václav STEYER; Dědictví Svátého Václava]Title: Biblí cžeská; to gest, Swaté pjsmo podlé starožitného a obnecného latinského od wsseobecné cýrkwe swaté ržjmské potwrzeného a vžjwaného přeloženj …Published: W Starém městě Pražském, w Kollegi sv. Kljmenta Towaryšstva P. Gežjsse, skrze J.J. Kamenieckého, 1715.
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