Low-German Bugenhagen Bible 1545- Plattduutse Bibel

The Low-German Bugenhagen Bible (1545).

 

Info on the language: Low-German

West Germanic language

Low-German forms together with Dutch, German, Jiddish, African, Frisian, English and Scottish Lowlands (the last three are forming a sub-branch within the group; North Sea germanic) the West Germanic language group. Linguistically Low-German stands between Dutch and German. During the middle-ages into the 16^th century Low-German was one of the most important (economical) languages of Europe. That is why Luther’s German Bible was translated by his friend Bugenhagen into Low-German. Today approx. 10 million people in north Germany, and almost 2 million people in the north-east of the Netherlands still speak Low-German.                   

 

The Bugenhagen Bible 1545, translated from Luther's German Bible into Low-German.

This edition is printed in 1599

 

The Bugenhagen Bible 1545

This bible is from 1534 http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00051900/image_5

 

This is a version of a bible of 1599/1600.

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The Bugenhagen Bible is one of the great lost Reformation Bibles in Europe.

For over 300 years it was THE Low-German Bible.

The last printed (NT and Psalms) edition (by J. Paulsen, printed in 1885) can be found behind the following link:

 

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