The CTT present this Thursday, October 31st, a philatelic broadcast dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the first full edition of the “Bible of Almeida”, published in 1819 at the R. and A. Taylor workshop in London. translated by João Ferreira Annes d'Almeida, a Portuguese.
This was the first time that this 5,000-page Bible was published in a single volume, a simple edition with a binding on the front to hold almost 1200 pages.
Both stamps are based on the World Map from the Album Art History / Quintlox / Fotobanco.pt. As an overlapping image, one of the seals shows us the Bible, 1819 edition, by João Ferreira de Almeida, and another stamp the signature of João Ferreira de Almeida.
According to Timóteo AJ Cavaco, author of the issue of this issue, “The Bible of Almeida” of 1819, produced at the expense of the British and Foreign Bible Society, founded in England in 1804 and with action in Portugal since 1809, represents a landmark of remarkable interest. in the history of biblical editions in Portuguese. […] However, the novelty of Almeida's work could only be fully understood if we retreated yet another two centuries to, in this distant seventeenth century, in these distant territories of the East Indies, we find a 14-year-old fascinated with this millenary Word of the God who still didn't speak our language. ”
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