The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
John Downame (1571 - 1652)
Sometimes spelled "Downham." Nonconformist clergyman, theologian, and author on topics of religion, including his immensely popular A Brief Concordance to the Bible (1631). Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/7978 References in Documents:inBible
Folio,
Robert Barker
the King's Printer: With this are bound up the
Genealogies, and Book
of
Common-Prayer; the
Apocrypha,
, and theJ. Downham 's Concordance
Psalmsin Metre.
The HolyBible , 8
voBy
,John Field
, withLondon
Downham 's
Concordance.
Concordance.
The Learned le Long, to the various Editions of the Bible, adds a
Chapter of the Concordances,
but this, as to the Latin, is before-men
tioned, as Concordantiæ, or Index Biblicus, and
some of the English:
But I shall add others that I have which he
wholly omits, as that
of Robert Fitz-Henry, of which to. Chr. and Rob. Barker, the former Printer to Elizabeth
the later to JamesJohn Downam'sConcordance to the last Translation,
allowed by his Majesty's special Privilege to be printed and bound with the Bible in
all Volumes. Here are
the Folio Edition vo. Sam. NewmanYorkeshire) An. Fol. Lond
Cambridge Concordance: That of Rob.
Wickens was printed at Oxford, 8vo.