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Spanish (1569) Spanish Bear Bible

Casiodoro de Reina worked for twelve years on its preparation. His translation began in 1565, and already when he had translated the Old Testament from Hebrew (having used the Hebrew Bible and the Ferrara Bible as linguistic support), but the project failed and Reina had to wait another two years to see her precious bible, finally printed. It was published in Basel , Switzerland , on September 28, 1569. An illustration of a bear was placed, logo of the Bavarian printer Matthias Apiarius, to avoid the use of religious icons, since at that time any translation of the Bible into vernacular languages was prohibited. This Bible had a second edition in 1622 , ordered by Reina's own relatives. It featured the same image of the bear as the original. In 1602 Cipriano de Valera published the first revision of the translation of Casiodoro de Reina, known as the Cantaro Bible, due to the emblem on its cover. Specialists such as Carlos Gilly affirm that the new editor limited himself [...] to changing the order of the books and adding or removing marginal notes, with minimal quantitative alterations to the biblical text set by the first translator, whose name is also ostensibly silenced in the

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