N.N. - [RANDWIJK / KERKENRAADSBIJBEL - Hervormde Kerk Randwyck] Biblia, dat is de gansche H. Schrift (...) - 1861-1886

N.N. - Bible, that is the entire Holy Scripture, containing all the canonical books of the Old and New Testaments, (...) By order of the Most Serene Lords States General of the United Netherlands and according to the decision of the synod nationally, held in the years 1618 and 1619 in Dordrecht.

- The Dutch Bible Company: Amsterdam, J. Brandt and son / Haarlem, J. Enschede and sons, 1886 - Old Testament, New Testament - XXII + 314 + 120 + 142 + 168 + 156 + 23 pp. -

[WITH] The Book of the Psalms (...)- 1886 - 168 pp.
{WITH] Evangelical Hymns (...) - 1861 - (4) + 156 pp.
[WITH] Liturgy: Catechism / Confessions, Formularies and Prayers

- original leather binding on wooden boards with blind-stamping (frames, floral motifs and medallions) and text print; spine with ribs - 29 x 24 x 10 (!) cm

Condition: very beautiful / excellent / as new! - very neat original binding (as new!) with very solid joints; very neat, compact and sturdy block (as new!); very neat, very clean and very fresh pages (only in the lower corner of pages 2 to 5 tattered piece: otherwise no spots or stains: very neat, very fresh and very white paper: as new!). Complete.

A beautiful and charming state Bible with a magnificent Gothic typeface.
Furnished with gold-embossed print: 'v. Randwyck'.

This Bible has lay for many years on the church council bench of the old (Reformed) church in Randwijk. A historic valuable object. Unique, rarely available!

Heavy and thick Bible!

Unique: virtually in new condition!
Collector’s item and a must-have for (Protestant) Christians from Randwijk.

Background information about the old Randwijk church:
From excavations it has emerged that there originally stood a 12th-century stone-column chapel. This little church had a narrow rectangular choir, and the nave was as wide as the current central nave. Probably this chapel was rebuilt or restored in brick in the 13th century. In the 15th century a tower was added here. By the end of the 15th century the old nave and choir were replaced by new construction.

The oldest mention of the church dates to 1395, when the church is listed in the Utrecht dom-factory list. The church possessed a vicarage for Saint Antonius and for Our Lady.

During the Reformation in the 16th century the church passed into Protestant hands. In 1614 there were still protests against the relics that were present in the Randwijk church.

In 1901 the church burned. In 1925 major renovations followed, in which the pillars in the nave were reduced to two, and the original four pointed-arch voussoirs were replaced by round arches. Service rooms were created by constructing walls in the nave and aisles. Part of the side walls was also raised with gables, so that larger windows and thus more light could enter.

In the winter of 1944-1945 the German occupier blew up the tower. The nave was also destroyed. The pulpit could be saved, but was not restored and was probably burned during the same winter.

After the war the choir was restored and in 1953 the new nave was completed. The pillars removed in 1925 were reinstalled, but the side aisles were narrower than originally. The foundation of the old side walls is still visible on the exterior in the form of sidewalks.