Thank you for your post. I have a Cambridge Pitt Minion bible with an English Hand Grained Morrocco Leather Lined cover that I purchased in June 1963. The cover remains soft and pliable and shows little signs of wear. It has headings at the top of the page with center column references and two column formatting. It was printed in Great Britain. I purchased it in Waukegan, IL. Not long afterward I travelled most of the Pacific Ocean. It has remained with me since returning to the Dallas/Fort Worth area and remains in excellent condition.
Wonderful reviews! The Cambridge Pitt Minions, regardless of version, are truly exquisite bibles. Compact, yet complete, with over 10,00 references, excellent concordances, and those beautiful Cambridge maps are highly portable and well suited for church, bible studies, and pastoral visits. Highly recommended!
Nice video, looking into to getting a KJV Pitt minion. Just don’t really like it having no headers and not being verse by verse. Love the size of the Bible though and the fact it has a concordance and 15 maps. Even though it’s not verse by verse and it has no section headings, would you recommend it?
The best portable Bible I've ever found is the Holman compact large print reference bible in bonded leather or leathertouch. They're cheap, smyth-sewn and well-bound, nice looking for the price, and very comfortable to read considering the size. They have larger font than this one or most any other compact Bible, yet they're still nice and small. They have a smaller footprint, yet thicker overall size than this one. I keep one in my backpack at all times and never have to worry if it gets ruined when the backpack gets thrown into some water or lost somehow. They cost about $10-$15 and are well worth it. I have over a half-dozen of them, most unused and being saved for the future. I also use these as my daily flip-around Bibles. When I'm reading my Clarion or other expensive Bibles, I don't want to flip around in them constantly and wear them out. But I don't mind flipping around in these cheaper Bibles to check reference verses or explore related ideas, etc. They're so small that it's easy to keep them around as a second Bible without having them in the way. They also make a great backup English Bible when I'm reading the Hebrew in my BHS reader's edition. And again, I don't feel bad about wearing them out. All in all, the Holman compact large print reference is the absolute most versatile Bible and most bang-for-the-buck I've ever seen from a Bible. They're not premium, but they're nicely put together, extremely portable, and somehow still totally readable for folks who can handle memdium-small 8.75 font. For reference, I think this Pitt Minion is like 6.5 font or something crazy small like that. Because they're such accessible, convenient Bibles, I've had them everywhere from my daily job to impromptu Bible studies to cross-country road trips including camping in the Rockies. I have one such Bible which I've carried daily for over a year and have read while in a handful of states across the country, and everywhere from my bedroom to friends' basements to parking lots to my tent and mountain meadows up around 10,000 ft, and at no point was I ever worried about losing or destroying it, never worried about getting it dirty with unwashed hands in the woods, never worried about getting a scratch on the gilding or a scuff on the fake leather cover. It's the best kind of Bible to respectfully abuse. I don't beat it up on purpose, but it definitely gets beat up in my travels, but that's okay. They last for years, never let me down, and I can always afford another.
Thank you for your post. I have a Cambridge Pitt Minion bible with an English Hand Grained Morrocco Leather Lined cover that I purchased in June 1963. The cover remains soft and pliable and shows little signs of wear. It has headings at the top of the page with center column references and two column formatting. It was printed in Great Britain.
I purchased it in Waukegan, IL. Not long afterward I travelled most of the Pacific Ocean. It has remained with me since returning to the Dallas/Fort Worth area and remains in excellent condition.
Awesome video! And thank you for the quality of the camera! I appreciate the quality because we can actually see what the text looks like! Thanks you!
Wonderful reviews! The Cambridge Pitt Minions, regardless of version, are truly exquisite bibles. Compact, yet complete, with over 10,00 references, excellent concordances, and those beautiful Cambridge maps are highly portable and well suited for church, bible studies, and pastoral visits. Highly recommended!
The font is so small, I think the print could be thicker or a larger font while maintaining the compact footprint of the text.
Nice video, looking into to getting a KJV Pitt minion. Just don’t really like it having no headers and not being verse by verse. Love the size of the Bible though and the fact it has a concordance and 15 maps.
Even though it’s not verse by verse and it has no section headings, would you recommend it?
The best portable Bible I've ever found is the Holman compact large print reference bible in bonded leather or leathertouch. They're cheap, smyth-sewn and well-bound, nice looking for the price, and very comfortable to read considering the size. They have larger font than this one or most any other compact Bible, yet they're still nice and small. They have a smaller footprint, yet thicker overall size than this one. I keep one in my backpack at all times and never have to worry if it gets ruined when the backpack gets thrown into some water or lost somehow. They cost about $10-$15 and are well worth it. I have over a half-dozen of them, most unused and being saved for the future.
I also use these as my daily flip-around Bibles. When I'm reading my Clarion or other expensive Bibles, I don't want to flip around in them constantly and wear them out. But I don't mind flipping around in these cheaper Bibles to check reference verses or explore related ideas, etc. They're so small that it's easy to keep them around as a second Bible without having them in the way. They also make a great backup English Bible when I'm reading the Hebrew in my BHS reader's edition. And again, I don't feel bad about wearing them out.
All in all, the Holman compact large print reference is the absolute most versatile Bible and most bang-for-the-buck I've ever seen from a Bible. They're not premium, but they're nicely put together, extremely portable, and somehow still totally readable for folks who can handle memdium-small 8.75 font. For reference, I think this Pitt Minion is like 6.5 font or something crazy small like that.
Because they're such accessible, convenient Bibles, I've had them everywhere from my daily job to impromptu Bible studies to cross-country road trips including camping in the Rockies. I have one such Bible which I've carried daily for over a year and have read while in a handful of states across the country, and everywhere from my bedroom to friends' basements to parking lots to my tent and mountain meadows up around 10,000 ft, and at no point was I ever worried about losing or destroying it, never worried about getting it dirty with unwashed hands in the woods, never worried about getting a scratch on the gilding or a scuff on the fake leather cover. It's the best kind of Bible to respectfully abuse. I don't beat it up on purpose, but it definitely gets beat up in my travels, but that's okay. They last for years, never let me down, and I can always afford another.