Zurich Bible

Title page of Zürch bible, 1531. Printed by Froschauer, this was for quite a while the most significant edition of the Zürich bible, from a textual and design perspective.
Froschauer bible, 1580
title page Froschauer-Bibel from 1580

The Zurich Bible (Zürcher Bibel, also Zwinglibibel) is a Swiss German Bible translation historically based on the rescensions of Huldrych Zwingli. Recent editions have a stated aim of maximal philological exactitude.

It is thought to be the first Bible to contain a map.[1]

  1. ^ Delano-Smith, Catherine; Ingram, Elizabeth Morley (1991), Maps in Bibles, 1500-1600: An Illustrated Catalogue, Librairie Droz, pp. 22–, ISBN 978-2-600-03167-7