The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance, as may appeare in the epistle to the reader.
Anthony Gilby (1510-1585)
Category
Books
Date
1583
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3235965
Summary
Bibliographic description
[22], 437, [2], 438-532; [1], 137, [10] leaves : ill. (woodcuts), geneal. tables, maps ; fol. Running number: 6937. Wanting initial blank leaf. Bottom corner of main title page cut out; foot of sig. Xx6 cut out; sig. Yy6 torn and repaired; foot of sig. Bbb4 torn off; metal pin inserted through sig. ³O3; bottom corner of sig. ³S1 torn off; bottom corner of sig. ³6 torn off, leaf stuck to ³T1. Some leaves with stains and discolourations. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Binding: eighteenth-century blind-tooled reversed calf over thick pasteboards; sewn onto six supports; blind-tooled frame design of fillets and rolls forming three concentric panels; blind roll pattern along board edges; double blind fillet decoration on spine; green goatskin spine label with gilt title 'Cranmer's Bible 1583'; red sprinkled textblock edges; comb pattern marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Anthony Gilby (1510-1585), translator Thomas Sampson (1517-1589), translator William Whittingham (c.1524 - 1579), translator Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) Archbishop of Canterbury. Christopher Barker (1529-1599), printer