The Saint Benedict Press Douay-Rheims Bible

The Saint Benedict Press Douay-Rheims Bible in genuine leather. The copy that appears in this video has a burgundy cover (ISBN 9781935302049). Currently, the black genuine leather edition is available (ISBN 9781935302032).

The Biblical text is presented in two columns, arranged in verses. The font in the text is 8.85 points in height. Sadly, the words of Christ are in lightly printed red letters.

I estimate the paper weight at 32 gsm. The paper is somewhat glossy, but reasonably opaque. Show-through (ghosting) is not troublesome, even though the text is not line-matched.

Page edges are covered in gold. The binding is glued. The volume will not lie open in Genesis Chapter 1. One golden ribbon marker is provided.

Detailed contents

00:00 Dimensions, margins, layout, font ... (three charts)
00:30 Size compared to other Bibles
01:03 The genuine leather cover
01:54 Page layout
03:23 The font in the text
04:30 The font in the page-bottom references and notes
04:50 Paper qualities (thickness, weight, opacity, gloss, color)
05:32 Print non-uniformity (fading)
06:15 Book introductions
07:35 Each book does not begin on a separate page
08:00 The words of Christ in the gospels are in red ink
08:48 Quotations from the Old Testament in the New are in italic font
08:57 Historical and chronological index
10:39 The color paintings and maps
11:30 The text block is glued and the Bible will not lie open in Genesis Chapter One
12:08 The ribbon marker and head and tail bands
12:50 What do the letters "CSPB" on the cover mean?
14:34 ISBNs for other editions
16:15 The character of the translation
16:45 New Testament textual choices characterized by comparisons with four modern Greek New Testaments
19:27 An example of the variation in darkness in the red letters
19:51 A close-up look at the font
20:07 The font compared to that in the P.J. Kennedy & Sons Douay-Rheims Bible
20:29 The font compared to that in Ignatius Press' Revised Standard Version 2nd Catholic Edition
20:55 The font compared to that in a Saint Joseph medium-sized New American Bible Revised Edition
21:17 The font compared to that in a facsimile of the 1582 Rheims New Testament
22:41 A brief look at some notes in the original 1582 Rheims New Testament that are no longer present
24:19 Concluding thoughts -- pros and con