Bible. English. Matthew's Bible. 1537. (Continued, 1.) *Q.450.19
* E380
et Priuilegio ad Imprimendum solum. vi. day of Maye. M.p.L.1. (14), cxii, ely, exc, cii, exlix, (1) ff. Engraved title-pages. Black letter. 30 cm., in 8s.
The original Matthew's Bible of 1537 was made up partly from Tyndale’s and partly from Coverdale’s translation. Thomas Matthew is commonly regarded as a pseudonym of John Rogers, who was the literary executor of Tyndale, and edited the Bible of 1537, but some think it more correct to consider it as meaning Tyndale, whose name it was, in those days, dan- gerous to mention. The present edition closely agrees with Raynalde and Hyll’s Bible of 1549, which was reprinted from the Matthew’s Bible of 1537.
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This card was printed at the Boston z= Public Library September 30, 1936.