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Scope and Contents ff.2667 (total); 323 x 200mm text size 273 x 163mm; 22 lines on standard BFBS paper (watermarked). A thinner paper is used for the rough drafts. Bound in 11 volumes, one of which has lost its binding, "Brown’s Telugu Bible" stamped in gold on the spine.A translation of much of the Bible, made by C. P. Brown, Madras Civil Service, comprising the Pentateuch, Joshua, Judges, I Samuel, II Chronicles 1-8(14), Ezra, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon,...

Scope and Contents ff.62; 224 x 182mm; text size 180 x 137mm; 25 lines on loose double sheets tied together with ribbon.Translated by Augustus Desgranges (otherwise Des Granges), one of the first two missionaries of the LMS to reach Vizagapatam in 1805 with assistance from a Telugu Brahman convert, named Anandarayar, who had mastered Tamil and translated from the Tamil version Desgranges himself working from the Greek. Together they prepared a first translation of the NT as far as the end of 1 Corinthians...