MANX BIBLE and JOHN KELLY

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MANX BIBLE and JOHN KELLY

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Sep 21, 2020 8:22 pm

The Christmas issue of 1975 for the Isle of Man was a set of four stamps that also
commemorated the bicentenary of the Manx Bible, whose title page is pictured on the 5½ pence value. Manx, a Celtic language spoken on the Isle of Man, is closely related to the Gaelic dialects of Ulster and Galloway. The first Manx Bible was printed between 1771 and 1775 and is the source and standard for modern Manx orthography. It was a collective translation undertaken by most of the Manx clergy under the editorship of Philip Moore. Further editions followed in 1777 and 1819.
http://www.graphics-stamps.org/10aBiblePrinted.html

One of this stamp has a maritime theme, it shows us the clergy John Kelly which on a voyage from Douglas to Whitehaven in March 1771 on board of the ? which stranded off the coast of Cumberland. He carried a valuable manuscript with hem from part of the Bible from Deuteronomy to Job translated in Manx Gaelic.
After the vessel stranded, Kelly held for five hours the manuscript above his head till he was rescued from the rocks where the ship had struck to keep it manuscript dry from the seawater.

Not a name of a stranded vessel is given in 1771 on the coast of Cumberland, in the sources I have.

Source: Internet.
Isle of Man 1975 13p sg 74, scott 77
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1975 Manx-bible.jpg

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