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 thinges of great importance, as may appeare in the epistle to the reader. Whereunto is added the Psalter of the common translation agreeing with the booke of Common prayer.
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) Archbishop of Canterbury.
Category
Books
Date
1578
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3236611
Summary
Bibliographic description
[34]; 376; 78; [2], 113, [1]; [10] leaves : ill. (woodcut), maps ; fol. Former shelfmark: BC.IV. Running number: 6936. Ruled in red throughout. Imperfect: wanting preliminary leaf *1. General title page trimmed and mounted. With cancel slip pasted over imprint. 1970s exhibition label inserted loosely at front. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Paper label pasted onto front pastedown, with seventeenth or eighteenth-century inscription: "Ludovici liber Σωληζιον[?] Theodore Challoner" [possibly Theodore Challoner (b. 1675), matric. 1691 Magdalen Hall, Oxford, BA 1695, MA 1698 -- cf. Alumni Oxonienses]. Seventeenth-century manuscript marginal additions and alterations to printed text on leaves a1r-c6v of the Proper lessons and Psalmes, Calendar, and Book of common prayer, altering the text to conform (presumably) with the 1604 or 1662 revisions of the Book of common prayer. Binding: magnificent original seventeenth-century gold-tooled calf rebound in nineteenth-century full calf over thick wooden boards; sewn on six supports; original seventeenth-century covers (outer edges cut off) onlaid on nineteenth-century covers; original covers elaborately gold-tooled all-over, outer frame filled with repeated pattern of Stuart royal coat of arms, floral and fleuron tools, inner frame with floral roll, fillet and dotted roll border, floral and fleuron tools fill head and tail, the central panel with large Stuart royal coat of arms within Garter, lion and unicorn supporters standing on base lettered with royal motto 'Dieu et mon droit', helm with lion crest and mantling; nineteenth-century gold-tooled acanthus leaves and floral roll border within double fillets and dotted roll; gold roll pattern on board edges and turn-ins; gold-tooled spine divided into seven panels with strapwork and fleuron tooling, 'Holy Bible' on brown leather label, lettered 'Lond: 1578' at foot of spine; original gilt textblock edges are gauffered with interlaced pattern and circles; nineteenth-century nonpareil pattern marbled endpapers and blank fly-leaves. Conservator's typescript note attached to rear pastedown, dated May 1991. Stored in brown buckram book box.
Makers and roles
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) Archbishop of Canterbury., author Anthony Gilby (1510-1585), editor Thomas Sampson (1517-1589), editor William Whittingham (c.1524 - 1579), editor Christopher Barker (1529-1599), printer