Coverdale Bible

by Myles Coverdale (Translator), William Tyndale (Translator)

Excerpt from The Bible by Coverdale, 1535

We have not been informed where Coverdale re sided whilst he was engaged in the work of translation. The title and some preliminary matter were printed in the same type as the Bible and also in the English black letter, but why these were twice printed, or by whom, we do not know; nor has any Bibliographer yet been able to inform us with what title-page this most interesting book was first issued in this country.

1136 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Myles Coverdale, first name also spelt Miles (1488 – 20 January 1569), was an English ecclesiastical reformer chiefly known as a Bible translator, preacher and, briefly, Bishop of Exeter (1551–1553).[1] Regarding his probable birth county, Daniell cites John Bale, author of a sixteenth century scriptorium, giving it as Yorkshire. Having studied philosophy and theology in Cambridge, Coverdale became an Augustinian friar and went to the house of his order, also in Cambridge. In 1514 John Underwood, a suffragan bishop and archdeacon of Norfolk, ordained him priest in Norwich. He was at the house of the Augustinians when in about 1520, Robert Barnes returned from Louvain to become its prior. In 1535, Coverdale produced the first complete printed translation of the Bible into English. His theological development is a paradigm of the progress of the English Reformation from 1530 to 1552. By the time of his death, he had transitioned into an early Puritan, affiliated to Calvin, yet still advocating the teachings of Augustine.