The Holy Byble, conteining the Olde Testament and the Newe. Authorised and appointed to be read in churches.
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) Archbishop of Canterbury.
Category
Books
Date
1585
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3217139
Summary
Bibliographic description
[18], 536; 137, [1] leaves : ill., geneal. tables, maps. ; fol. Imperfect: missing prelims., including titlepage and preface to l.1; also probable 267-8, 438-9, missing leaves 1-2, including tp. and 137 of N.T. (Text of various missing leaves supplied in dense but neat ink manuscript). Old Lyme park library shelfmark label: Case M. Shelf 8. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Lyme', signed 'J. F. Badeley. fecit 1904' [i.e. Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Contemporary plaque on upper cover, blind lettered (worn): "Piers Legh knight 1587". Nineteenth-century gilt ram's head crest stamped on spine [i.e. a Legh family book]. Binding: late sixteenth or early seventeenth-century blind panelled calf; ornamented metal corner and centre bosses; missing clasps; blind lettered ownership plaque inlaid over centre panel; rebacked in brown morocco, sewn onto five raised bands. Repairs to numerous damaged leaves. Nineteenth-century gilt ram's head crest stamped on spine [i.e. a Legh family book].
Makers and roles
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) Archbishop of Canterbury. Barker, Christopher