Title Page of the Bible Translation by John Eliot 1663

Titelseite der Bibelübersetzung von John Eliot, Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God . . . . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson, 1663. A663; Bildquelle: Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia.

The first complete Bible that was printed in the US was a work of the English Puritan John Eliot, who wrote a grammar of Algonquin (Massachusetts) in New England, and, in 1663, published his Algonquin translation of the Bible under the title of Mamusse wunneetu-panatamwe Up-Biblum God in Cambridge (Massachusetts).

Title page of John Eliot's translation of the Bible, Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God . . . . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson, 1663. A663; source: Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia.