{"id":46756,"date":"2014-11-07T16:30:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T16:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_exeter_cathedral_treasure_found_in_oxfam_bookshop\/"},"modified":"2014-11-07T16:30:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T16:30:38","slug":"church_times_exeter_cathedral_treasure_found_in_oxfam_bookshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46756","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Exeter Cathedral treasure found in Oxfam bookshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unusual email to library staff at Exeter Cathedral has led to the unearthing of a 16th-century copy of the New Testament in a Surrey charity shop.<\/p>\n<p>The volume, Jesu Christi D.N. Nouum Testamentum, was edited by the Frenchman Theodore Beza, an important figure in the Reformation and a contemporary of John Calvin. It was published in 1574 by Thomas Vautrollier, a French Huguenot refugee who became a leading printer of religious books in England.<\/p>\n<p>It was recognised by a browser in the Oxfam shop in Dorking, Surrey, who noticed that it contained a dedication to E. C. Harington, dated 1869. He was Edward Charles Harington, a former Canon Chancellor of Exeter Cathedral. On his death in 1881, his extensive collection of books was bequeathed to the Dean and Chapter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2014\/7-november\/news\/uk\/exeter-cathedral-treasure-found-in-oxfam-bookshop\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unusual email to library staff at Exeter Cathedral has led to the unearthing of a 16th-century copy of the New Testament in a Surrey charity shop. The volume, Jesu Christi D.N. Nouum Testamentum, was edited by the Frenchman Theodore<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46756\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,50,92,186,582,589,149,199,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-books","category-church-history","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}