Bible. English. Matthew’s Bible. 1537. (Continued, 2.) *Q.450.19
* E380
It is also called the Bug Bible from the translation of Psalm 91:5. This reading is common to Coverdale’s, Matthew’s and Taverner’s versions, and the nickname has been attached to more than one edition. It has after the heading to the Prologue to Leviticus the initials W. T., and again in the Prologue to Jonah, also all the prologues of Tyndale and the notes by Matthew. Anderson thinks this edition worthy of special note, on account of the colophon, which is as follows: ‘Here endeth the whole Byble after the translation of Thomas Mathew: with all hys Prologues, that is to say, vpon the v. bokes of Moses, the prophet Jonas, and to euery of the four Euangelistes, and before euerye Epistle of the New Testament... Dili- [Continued on the next card.]
This card was printed at the Boston ee Public Library September 30, 1936.