The whole Byble. that is the holy scripture of the Olde and Newe testament faythfully translated into Englyshe by Myles Couerdale, and newly ouersene and correcte. M.D.L.
Miles Coverdale (1488-1568) Bishop of Exeter
Category
Books
Date
1550
Materials
Measurements
238 x 200 x 97 mm
Place of origin
Zurich
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3231926
Summary
Full description
Orientation: VerticalText Substrate: handmade laid paperInk/Pigment: red and black printing inkType: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, raised supportsDate of Binding: 16.3, repaired 1955 Binder's Name: English End Leaves: Disturbed with new leaves inserted in 1956. Originally a sewn single fold within parchment guards of romanesque me ms waste later re-used as a cover for a Basso music partStructure: FrenchEdges: plain cut, decoration unknown, polished? Spine Lining: moderate round, quadrant joints, linings unknown (rebacked) End Bands: none present Bookmark: noneBoards: 6mm beech wood boards, shallow edge chamfer on inner surface at head, tail and fore-edge, internal 45° chamfer along spine.Covering: full brown tanned calf, polishedTooling Spine: blind fillets at head and tail of each spine panel, blind-tooled hatching across tooled kettleband at tail; no title.Tooling Sides: blind-tooled t/t/t 3 line tool border with intersecting corners around a double frame made by the same blind-tooled roll with a narrow blank panel in the centre Furniture: sheet copper alloy centre and corner bosses with a central dome on each board; catchplates of sheet copper alloy rolled over a bar on left board fore-edge; two leather straps each secured with 3 decorated nails on the right boardEnclosure: Binding Notes:
Bibliographic description
[8], CCCLXXVI, CCCLXXIX-CCCCXCIIII [i.e. 492], CXXI, [3] leaves ; 4to. Running number: 6852. Imperfect: wanting title page ([Maltese cross]1) and final three leaves (qq2-4). Some leaves damaged, usually at the foot or fore-edge, some text missing, e.g. leaves [Maltese cross]2, A1, A8, n6-8, y5; leaves repaired (2017) with Japanese tissue-paper. Some leaves badly cropped by binder, partially cutting off the foliation number and side-notes. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742). Paper slip pasted onto front endpaper bearing inscription written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys, comparing the imperfections in the "Bible Osborne" (presumably one in the stock of the London bookseller Thomas Osborne (d. 1767)) to Ellys's copy; on fol. 179 "mend a leaf. Ours good", for example, or on fol. 420 "dirty Ours better", ending "Many other dirty leaves in this copy, may be supplied out of the other", i.e. Ellys's other copy. Manuscript inscriptions on front endpaper: "Benjamin Taylor his booke anno dom 1670" and "Beniamin: Tallor Ano Domino: 1670". Manuscript inscriptions on leaf BB3r: "Katheryn Tailer" (at head) and in verse "I sure do fynde most ... [cropped] / much lyke the hathorne thike / which in the Maye beare blossomes gaye / yet thornes therin dooth prycke" (upside-down at foot of leaf). Manuscript inscription upside-down at foot of leaf BB8r: "Katherine Tailer". Manuscript inscription upside-down at foot of leaf CC1r: "John Lang..." [illegible]. Binding: sixteenth-century blind-tooled calf (very worn and stained, repaired) over pasteboards; sewn on four sewing supports; blind roll pattern rectangular framework consisting of outer frame of a double roll (the same floral roll tool repeated throughout) joined at the corners by a double roll to an inner frame of a double roll; two brass catches on lower board, clasps missing from upper board; bookblock edges originally stained red. Large holes on upper board where clasps were originally, repaired (1955) in calf. Rebacked in calf and repaired (2017) in calf, with new blue and white endbands. Pencil inscription in the hand of Cecil Clarabut (the National Trust's first Libraries Adviser) on front pastedown: "Repaired at Cambridge, 1955". In brown buckram box. Eighteenth-century calf spine and fragments from original binding (double cord sewing supports, sewing threads, and paper strips) removed during repair kept in separate folder in book box.
Makers and roles
Miles Coverdale (1488-1568) Bishop of Exeter, editor Christoph Froschauer (c.1490-1564), printer Hester, Andrew, d. 1557, bookseller Mierdman, Steven, printer