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    • Uniform Title:Bible. English. Tyndale - Taverner.
    • Title:The Byble, that is to say, al the Holy Scripture conteined in the Olde & New Testament : faythfully set furth according to [the] coppy of Thomas Mathewes trau[n]slacio[n], wherunto are added certaine learned prologes, & annotacio[n]s for the better understanding of many hard places thorowout the whole Byble.
    • Publication:Imprinted at London : By Ihon Day, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate ..., anno a MDLi [1551]
    • Physical Description:[22], xxxiiii [that is, lxxxiiii], cxvii, [1], cxlii, lxxxiiii, [1], xcviii [that is, cxviii], [1] leaves ; 28 cm (folio)
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    • Local Notes:BEIN Z84 0126: Imperfect: First title page in facsimile within genuine border from one of later title pages. Almanack and dedicatory letter (*2r-*4v), V4 wanting. Some pages rebacked and text completed in manuscript. Occasional annotations, including "556" repeated throughout. Accompanied by: photostat copy of Psalm 46 (verso of part 3, fol. xvi) (1 leaf).
    • Notes:The Old Testament and the Apocrypha are the "Matthew" Bible version (that is, the translation of William Tyndale edited by John Rogers), revised by Richard Taverner, further revised by Edmund Becke, who edited the whole. The New Testament is in the Tyndale translation.
      Title leaf printed in red and black.
      Month and date of publication from colophon: MDLI the xxiii daye of Maye.
      Signatures: *⁴ 2A⁶ b-c⁶ e-s⁶, A-T⁶ V⁴, ²2A-2Y⁶ 3A⁶ 3B⁴, ²3A-3O⁶ 4A-4T⁶ 4V⁸ (V4 blank).
    • Variant and related titles:Bible. English. Taverner. 1551.
    • Format:Book
    • References:English short title catalogue, S107008
      Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 2088
      Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 93
    • Also listed under:Becke, Edmund, active 1549-1551, editor.
      Rogers, John, 1500?-1555, editor.
      Taverner, Richard, 1505?-1575, editor.
      Tyndale, William, -1536, translator.
      England--London.