The Byble, that is to say, al the holy Scripture conteined in the olde & new Testament, faythfully set furth according to ye coppy of Thomas Mathewes trau[n]slacio[n], wherunto are added certaine learned prologes, & annotacio[n]s for the better vnderstanding of many hard places thorowout the whole Byble.
Edmund Becke (fl.1549-1551)
Category
Books
Date
1551
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3234964
Summary
Bibliographic description
[22], xxxiiii [i.e. lxxxiiii], cxvii, [1], cxlii, lxxxiiii, [1], xcviii [i.e. cxviii], [1] leaves : ill. (woodcut) ; fol. Running number: 6925. Omitted lines of printed text at the bottom of leaves QQ6v and RR6v are added by means of pasted slips on the foot of the second columns. The general title (leaf *1) is torn around the edges and is mounted (no loss of text). Leaves *2-4 and AA1-2 with minor repairs on bottom corner. Final blank leaf Vvvv8 is missing. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript monogram/initials on inside front board: "JG". Inscriptions on verso of front fly-leaf in a sixteenth-century hand, illegible. Pencil number (probably twentieth-century) on top corner of recto of front fly-leaf: "B 32". Binding: late sixteenth or seventeenth-century English full calf over pasteboards; covers scratched and abraded; sewn on five tawed leather supports; five raised bands; blind thin thick thin fillet border, edge of border some way in from the spine; gilt lozenge-shape centrepiece stamp; two pairs of clasps missing from fore-edge of boards (rivet holes for clasps on upper bord, brass catches on lower board); single blind fillet along board edges; spine in six blind fillet compartments with gilt tools; red sprinkled textblock edges. Head and tail of spine, bottom corner of upper board and fittings for missing clasps repaired in tan calf. Pencil inscription in the hand of Cecil Clarabut (the National Trust's first Libraries Adviser) on verso of front fly-leaf: "repaired at Cambridge 1955".
Makers and roles
Edmund Becke (fl.1549-1551), editor John Rogers (1500?-1555), editor Taverner, Richard, editor William Tyndale (1491/2-1536), translator John Day (1521/2 - 1584), printer