The Rheims New Testament of 1582 is a Roman Catholic translation of the New Testament into English. It was made by English Catholic exiles at the English College that William Allen founded at Douai in 1568 and moved to Rheims in 1578, and John Fogny printed it at Rheims. Gregory Martin translated it from the Latin Vulgate, comparing the Greek, with revision by Allen, Richard Bristow and others; the long annotations, usually credited chiefly to Bristow, defend Catholic doctrine against the Protestant translations of the day. Its Latinate vocabulary ("Paſche", "Azymes", "euangelize") drew Protestant criticism, yet the King James translators of 1611 consulted it and took up some of its words. With the Old Testament, printed at Douai in 1609 and 1610 (The Douay Old Testament (1609–1610)), it became the Douay-Rheims Bible, which Bishop Richard Challoner revised in 1749–1752 (The Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner Revision)).

This room gives the whole 1582 volume as transcribed by the Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) from the Eton College Library copy: the title page and approbation, the preface, the key to the marks, all twenty-seven books with their arguments, chapter summaries, 7,951 verses, marginal notes and annotations, the harmony of the Gospels, the summary of the Acts with its chronological tables, the general argument of the Epistles, the table of liturgical readings, the index, and the glossary with the list of printing faults. The spelling is the original spelling ("vvhich", "Ieſus", "ſaid"), and nothing has been modernised or corrected. Verse numbers stand as the edition prints them; in 5 places where the edition marks the start of a verse but prints no number, the missing number is supplied in square brackets, as the next number in the sequence; the colophon of each page names the places on it.

What is missing: 2,034 places that the transcribers could not read on the microfilm are marked ⟨illegible⟩, most of them single letters, and 327 words or phrases printed in Greek or other non-Latin letters, which the transcription did not key, are marked ⟨non-Latin script⟩. None has been filled or guessed. The page references in the tables point to the pagination of 1582, which is not reproduced here. This is an archival transcription, not a Good Works Translation.

The Books

Front matter

• Title page, and the censure and approbation
• The preface to the reader
• The marks used, and the books of the New Testament
• The summe of the New Testament

The New Testament

• Matthew
• Mark
• Luke
• John
• The order of the Gospel history (a harmony of the four Gospels)
• Acts
• The summe of the Actes, with tables of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
• The argument of the Epistles in general
• Romans
• 1 Corinthians
• 2 Corinthians
• Galatians
• Ephesians
• Philippians
• Colossians
• 1 Thessalonians
• 2 Thessalonians
• 1 Timothy
• 2 Timothy
• Titus
• Philemon
• Hebrews
• James
• 1 Peter
• 2 Peter
• 1 John
• 2 John
• 3 John
• Jude
• Revelation

Tables at the end

• Table of the Epistles and Gospels for the year
• Index of Catholic truths
• Explication of certain words, and the faults corrected

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