The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-03-19


10 sheets originally printed, but the title
page is wanting, and it hence consists of 81
pages Fourteen of these contain q pro-
logue, beginning: II have here translated
(brethren and susters noost deere and ten
derby beloved in Christ) the Newe Testament
for you're spiritual edyfyinge, consolation,
and sofas" After the prologue, is found a
complete list OF the books OF the Nest Tesla
ment and q woodcut representing an angel
holding an lnkstand into which st. Matthew
Is dipping his pen. This woodcut furnished
the chief means of ascertaing The printer and
the date; reduced copy of it was found in
book known to have been printed by Peter
Quentel at Cologne, in June. 1926, the Tyn-
dale fragment, which contains the cut In its
original size, must. therefore, have been
printed previously, and at the same press.
This picture is also found in two works
printed by Quentel in 1929. one of which is
in the exhibition. NO 492. Emer's Ger
man Testament, from the library of the
Matt xiii, is specimen OF Tyndale's first
version: THE same daye went Jesus out of
the house, and satt by the see syde,
and moche people resorted unto him.
so gretly that he went and sat in
q shype, and all the people, stode on the
shoore. And he spake many things to them
in smilitudes, sayinge, beholde, the sower
went forth to sowe, and as he sowed, some
fell by the wages syde. and the fowles cam,
and devoured it uppe." We give also, for
comparison, the passage which was quoted
bethlehem a toune of jury, in the time of
kyDge Herode, behold, there cam wyse men
from the este to Jerusalem saying; where is
be that is borne kynge of the jewes? we
have sene his Stare in the este, and are
come to worshippe hym." Tyndale added 70
this edition a few marginal notes; the one
on "Whosoever hath, to him shall be given,
etc." is suggestive of the times "Where
the worde OF god is understonde, there hit
multiplieth and makith the people better,
where hit hit is not understonde theare hit
decreasith and makith the people woorse''
Il will be noticed IN the passages quoted
that the same word Is sometimes spelled in
different ways in a single sentence; this is of
frequent occurrence in most English books
up TO within two centuries; but such SPELL
| ings as people" and ''theare' are evidently
misprints, Of which there are many in
the Tyndale fragment as might be
expected in a work composed in secret
and under constant fear Of detection.)
TYNDALE's VARIOUS THASsLATroNs.
After arriving at Worms, Tyndale at once
began an octave edition of the New Testa-
ment, without prologue or notes, and it was
published with no delay, probably in the
spring of 1s26. A copy Of this edition. pre-
served in the library of the Baptist College,
Bristol, lacks only the title page. This was
most carefully reproduced in fac smile by
Francis Fry, in 1862; it was reprinted by
Bagster in 1886, under the editorship of Mr.
Ofor, but with considerable inaccuracy in
minor points. The same translation OF the
Gospels is given, together with Wycliffe's, in
Bosworth and Warnings Gothic and Anglo.
Saxtou Gospels. An imperfect copy of this
edition, defective both at beginning and end,
is in the library of st. Paul's Cathedral,
London. These three copies-the GreenviIle
fragment of the quarto and the Bristol and
St. Paups copies of the octavo-sll deprived
| OF their title pages, are the earliest impress
sions OF any portion OF the printed Bible
in the English Language, not known
to be in existence. There is little pros
pect that any one of these will ever be
| sold and still less of Its coming to this coun-
try, so that we on this side of the Atlantic
will have to be content with fac slmlles and
| reprints. A revised version, with marginal
notes, usually known as the second edition,
appeared in 1884 with this title: 1.-THE newe
Testament diligently corrected and COM
pared with the Greke by Wlllyam Tindale;
and fynesshed in the yere of cure Lorde
God. A. NJ. d. and xxxiiij. in the moneth
OF November. Antwerp: by Marten EN-
perowr." Several copies of this edition are
in English libraries; from the one in the
Baptist College, Bristol, Messrs Bagster. in
1913, published careful reprint In their Eng.
lish Hexapla. A copy bequeathed to the
British Museum in 1899, by Rev. G. M. Cra-
cherode, was made for presentation to Queen
Anne Boleyn. 1t is printed on veilum,
| Deautltully 1llumlnateQ, ana DOunQ IN blue
morocco; it bears no dedication, but on the
giided edges, in faded red letters, runs the
simple title, Anna Regina Apghe. The
only portions of the Old Testament which
Tyndale published, were the Pentateuch, al
Marburg, 1880, (the five books probably
issued separately, of which Genesis was
revised in 1884,, and the book of Jonah
in 1881, probably at Antwerp. A copy OF his
Pentateuch, which had belonged to Bishop
Heber, was sold in 1854 for S795; another
copy, in fine condition, was sold in 1877 fol
1912. There is some ground for believing
that he left In manuscript the translation Of
large part of the remainder of the Bible
After running the gauntlet OF persecution
for several years, Tyndale was at length
hunted down, and, through the treachery o.
a pretended friend named Philips, was be
trayed to his enemies. In May, 1885, he
was imprisoned in the castle of Vilvorde
near BRUSSELS. and there in October, 1886
he was s.rangled at the stake and his body
burned. For twelve years he had laboreC
ceaselessy, in voluntary exile to free the
English people from priestcraft and spiritua
serfdom; to this end he devoted his life anC
his last prayer was, Lord! open the King o.
England's eyes,"