Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Paul Saenger and Kimberly Van Kampen
  • Introduction / Anthony Kenny
  • The layout of the Bible gloss in manuscript and early print / J.P. Gumbert
  • An extraordinary achievement: the Glossa ordinaria in print / Karlfried Froehlich
  • Biblical blockbooks / Nigel F. Palmer
  • The impact of the early printed page on the reading of the Bible / Paul Saenger
  • The changing shape of the Vulgate Bible in the fifteenth-century printing shops / Paul Needham
  • Hebrew printing of the Bible in the XVth century / Adrian K. Offenberg
  • Biblical books and the circulation of the Psalms in late-medieval England / Kimberly Van Kampen
  • The Bible, printing and the educational goals of humanists / Guy Bedoulle
  • The printing press in Alcala de Henares: the Complutensian polyglot Bible / Julian Martin Abad
  • The problem of manuscript basis for the earliest printed editions of the Greek New testament / Michael Welte
  • 'The book thus put in every vulgar hand': impressions of readers in early English printed Bibles / William H. Sherman
  • The re-evaluation of the patristic exegetical tradition in the sixteenth century / David Steinmetz.