The newe testament both Latine and Englyshe : ech correspondent to the other after the vulgare texte, communely called S. Jeroms / faythfully translated by Myles Couerdale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coverdale, Miles, 1488-1568.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Bible Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Bible. New Testament. English & Latin. Coverdale. 1538.

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Penn Provenance:

Ross, T. Edward (bookplate)

Rissell(?), Philip (autograph)

Shrigley, R(?) (autograph)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered leaves, 344, that is, 342 leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves ; 21 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

onto i4i3 emuo thcr (3) 1538 (R)

Place of Publication:

Printed in Southwarke : By Iames Nicolson ..., Anno MCCCCCXXXVIII [1538]

Language Note:

Latin text and English translation printed in parallel columns (Latin text on the inner column; English text on the outer).

Notes:

"The first edition of Coverdale's diglot Testament ... but so full of misprints and errors that Coverdale repudiated it ..."--Darlow & Moule.

Date appears before place of printing on title leaf.

Signatures: [Maltese cross]⁶ A-2U⁸.

"This edition has, on leaf 40 lines 13-14, 'before \ the cock synge'."--ESTC.

Numerous errors in foliation.

Title in red and black within decorative woodcut border; woodcut initials.

Typographical ornaments.

Printed marginalia.

"An Almanach for xviii. yeares." (leaves [Maltese cross]5r-[Maltese cross]6v) printed in red and black.

"A table to finde the Epistles and Gospels vsually red in the church after Salysbury vse," leaves [1]-[2] at end.

Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640; 109:04 on UMI microfilm.

PrintePublished in London.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy has bookplate of T. Edward Ross on front pastedown; typescript paper card with description of this copy laid in; ms. provenance note in pencil on back pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy has early ms. inscription at head of title leaf; autograph of Philip Rissell(?) on verso of title leaf and leaf [Maltese cross]6r; partially illegible autograph ("R...[?] Shrigley") on verso of title leaf; early ms. inscriptions in margins of leaf [Maltese cross]2r.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full blind-tooled leather over wooden boards; 4 raised bands on spine; title ("New Testament") and imprint date stamped in gold on spine;

Penn Libraries copy: boards detached; tail portion of some leaves at beginning of volume dampstained.

Cited in:

ESTC S102464

STC (2nd ed.) 2816

Herbert, A.S. Engl. Bible, 37

Darlow & Moule 19

OCLC:

17410089