The new Testament in Englishe after the greeke translation annexed wyth the translation of Erasmus in Latin. Wherunto is added a kalendar, and an exhortation to the readyng of the holy scriptures made by the same Erasmus wyth the Epistles taken out of the olde testame[n] both in Latin and Englyshe, wheru[n]to is added a table necessarry to finde the Epistles and Gospels for euery sonday & holyday throughout the yere after the vse of the churche of England nowe.
William Tyndale (1491/2-1536)
Category
Books
Date
1550
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3232209
Summary
Bibliographic description
[528] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 6857. Variant C with printed cancel slip on C7r, but without the blank cancel on C6v. Imperfect: wanting leaves *4-5 (calendar for March-June). Additional leaf bound-in at end containing a seventeenth-century[?] engraving of King David playing the harp and the English text of verses 5-6 of Psalm 98. Provenance: armorial binding of Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford (1654-1720) (stamp 2 in British Armorial Bindings database): arms quarterly (1) Barry of six a label for difference (Grey), (2) Six mullets three two and one (Bonvile), (3) A fret (Harrington), (4) A cross engrailed between four water bougets (Bourchier), coronet of an Earl. Various manuscript inscriptions on title page, including: "Stamford 1693" [i.e. Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford], "I R", "1652::-", and the memento mori from copied from Ecclesiasticus 7:40 in a neat hand "Ecclesiasticus. 7. In omnib[us] operibus tuis memorare / novissima tua, et ineternu[m] non peccabis". Manuscript marginal notes in sixteenth-century[?] hand and other markings, manicules and underlining of text throughout. Manuscript booksellers'[?] codes and number on front pastedown. Manuscript price[?] on front fly-leaf scribbled over in ink and top corner of fly-leaf torn off, a feature common to many of Blickling's books. Binding: seventeenth-century calf; sewn onto four sewing supports; double blind fillet border and additional double blind fillet parallel to spine-edge; gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of the arms of Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford; remnants of gilt roll along board edges; blind fillet decoration on spine; blind-lettered on spine (title label missing?) 'TEST. BY ERASM.'; red and brown sprinkled bookblock edges, with remnants of some gilding.
Makers and roles
William Tyndale (1491/2-1536), translator Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), translator Cawood, John, editor Sir John Cheke (1514-1557), editor Gaultier, Thomas, printer Cawood, John, publisher