(ARC-1911) Almeida Revista e Corrigida

João Ferreira de Almeida (1628–1691) translated the New Testament into Portuguese. The first printing appeared in 1681 in Batavia, now Jakarta.

The text was revised several times after that. A complete Bible, Old and New Testaments together, was printed in London in 1819 by the British and Foreign Bible Society.

The name Revised and Corrected belongs to the Lisbon edition of 1898, also issued by that society. That form spread through Brazil in the early twentieth century.

Catalogues of the period record printings dated 1911. This page is about that old text, not about a revision made in Brazil decades later.

The language keeps the Portuguese of that revision: longer sentences and words that today’s Almeida editions have already replaced.

This old edition is in the public domain. It can be read and quoted on this site without a licence from the Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil.

It is not the Almeida Revista e Corrigida that the Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil publishes today. That current edition was touched up in 1995 and in 2009 and has its own copyright.

It is also not the Almeida Revista e Atualizada, the Almeida Corrigida Fiel, or the Bíblia Livre. Each follows a different base text and a different licence.

On Comentarionista the abbreviation of this edition is ARC-1911. The button on the navigation bar uses that abbreviation to change only the Bible text.

The paragraphs above summarize the history published on Wikipedia. The links below open the pages these facts were taken from.