A Catholic Family Bible from 1960 -- Confraternity and Douay

A review of a pre-Vatican II Catholic family Bible published by J.J. Little & Ives in 1960. Two translations are featured in this volume: The Douay version as revised by Challoner in the middle of the eighteenth century, and that of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. Both are based on a Latin source text.

The paper is thick, opaque, and matte. The print is large and usually dark. References are included, along with a few explanatory footnotes. Many color and grayscale illustrations are included, as is an extended extract from Butler's 'Lives of the Saints'.

This Bible is bound using the post-and-pin method.

Detailed contents:

00:00 Dimensions, margins, layout, font ... four charts
00:42 Size compared to the hardback Revised New Jerusalem Bible
01:15 Text layout
02:15 The font in the text
03:12 The references and notes
03:32 Paper qualities
04:26 The book introductions
06:28 The historical and chronological tables
06:47 A table of references
07:06 A table of the epistles and gospels
07:26 The grayscale illustrations
09:41 An extract from Butler's Lives of the Saints
10:48 A table of Popes
11:01 The eighteen color maps
11:43 The pin and post binding
12:18 The two currant ribbon markers
13:03 The front page, presentation page, and family records
13:33 Indulgences
14:24 The publisher: J.J. Little & Ives, New York and Toronto, 1960
14:37 The imprimatur
15:36 Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Providentissimus Deus, on the inerrancy of Scripture
17:17 The table of contents
18:24 The color plates
23:46 The Confraternity translation compared to the New American Bible, 1970 edition, in Genesis 3
24:22 The note at Matthew 16 - Peter, the Rock, and the indefectibility of the Church
25:21 John 21 and the primacy of Peter
25:38 The note at Romans 4.3; justification and salvation are not the same
25:57 The note at Genesis 1.26 and the image and likeness of God
26:15 The note at Genesis 6.2 -- who were the sons of God?
26:25 Isaiah 9.6 -- no note
26:30 Isaiah 53 -- not note, but the heading calls this section a prophecy of the passion of Christ
26:42 Zechariah 13.6 -- no note
26:49 The note at Revelation 20.2, a postmillennial perspective?
27:54 The note at 2 Thessalonians 2: Antichrist and the restrainer
28:34 The note at Matthew 24.4-14 and the Second Coming of Christ
29:17 Summary