Title Annotations / on the / New Testament / of / Jesus Christ / in which / I. The literal sense is explained according to the / Expositions of the ancient Fathers. / II. The false interpretations, both of the ancient and / modern Writers, which are contrary to the received / Doctrine of the Catholic Church, are briefly exa- / mined and disproved. / III. With an account of the chief differences betwixt the / text of the ancient Latin-Version, and the Greek / in the printed Editions, and MSS. / The First Volume. [of two] / By RW. D. D. / With Permission and Approbations / Anno. 1730.
Date 1730
Publisher Unknown Publisher (Douay?)
Contents The New Testament text revised from the original Rheims Version of 1582 and new annotations by Father Robert Witham (1667? - 1738).
References HERBERT 1009, POPE 669-4, COTTON 226, CHAMBERLIN 536.
Images Title page
Comments Father Witham was President of the English College at Douay (France) from 1715 until his death. Although initially well received, his New Testament translation would soon be overshadowed by the series of revisions shortly to by published by his one-time subordinate at Douay, Richard Challoner.
Provenance This copy was one owned by Father Henry Rutter (1755-1838), whose Gospel Harmony first published in 1803 sometimes "had recourse to Dr. Witham's approved version, which occasionally expresses the sense with greater ease and perspicuity [than Challoner's revisions]."
