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RARE BIBLE APOCRYPHA!!!!!!!
This Listing is for a very Special 1549- The Tyndale(Matthews) New Testament!!
For Buy it Now-A Rare Early Matthews-Tyndale New Testament in a Fine Leather Binding!!!!! This is the Matthew 2nd Edition-the First was printed in 1537.The New Testament of the Lord Jesus Christ-complete with only a number of Leaves in Fine facsimileObviously many great chapters and verses in this special Book!!!!
But the Woodcuts throughout are breathtaking!!!!! the 1549 printing -by John Daye London- -RARE!!!!! Printed during the Reign of King Edward the 6th!!! 1549!!!! Approved by Cromwell-Herbert #74.
Folio-12\" by 8 3/8\" The New Testament-Pagination is Title(1)- through folio 123b, which includes the colophon at the end of the Tables.123 leaves including Title page with blank endpapers front and rear.Full leaves with light browning-few pages with inside spots and a few stain pages.
Condition-Very good. Nice clean leaves
Good facsimile of New Testament Title, Leaf 3-Matthews Title; then the complete New Testament Text until Leaf # 112(the beginning of Revelation. Then Leaves 113-121(1st page of Tables. A Total of 10 Text Leaves inserted with matching from a Matthews New Testament published by the Bible Museum.
This Book is 477 years old!!!! And in great shape. New Leather Binding simple designs 5 raised bands on center spine. See info on Matthews-TYNDALE Bible which follows.
Please view the photos-They give a good idea of condition. This is a tremendous opportunity to own a 1549-Tyndale New Testament. It is His Prologues and his Translation of the New Testament that Rogers used in his Matthews Bible. in a beautiful binding from a very early English Bible.
See pics. 477 years old!!!!!! See all the photos
Reasonably priced-
God bless.
Matthew BibleFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Bible in English
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TheMatthew Bible, also known asMatthew\'s Version, was first published in 1537 byJohn Rogers, under the pseudonym \"Thomas Matthew\". It combined the New Testament ofWilliam Tyndale, and as much of the Old Testament as he had been able to translate before being captured and put to death. The translations ofMyles Coverdalefrom German and Latin sources completed the Old Testament and theBiblical apocrypha, except the ApocryphalPrayer of Manasses. It is thus a vital link in the main sequence of English Bible translations.
Contents[hide]
- 1Translation
- 2Printing
- 3Literature
- 4Notes
- 5References (general)
- 6See also
- 7External links
Translation[edit]
Matthew\'s Bible was the combined work of three individuals, working from numerous sources in at least five different languages.
The entire New Testament (first published in 1526, later revised, 1534 and 1535), thePentateuch,Jonahand inDavid Daniell\'s view,[1]theBook of Joshua,Judges,Ruth,First and Second Samuel,First and Second Kings, andFirst and Second Chronicles, were the work ofWilliam Tyndale. Tyndale worked directly from theHebrewandGreek, occasionally consulting theVulgateandErasmus?sLatinversion, and he usedLuther\'s Bible for the prefaces, marginal notes and the biblical text.[2][3][4][5]The use of the pseudonym \"Thomas Matthew\" resulted possibly from the need to conceal fromHenry VIIIthe participation of Tyndale in the translation.
The remaining books of the Old Testament and theApocryphawere the work ofMyles Coverdale. Coverdale translated primarily fromGermanand Latin sources.[6]Historians often tend to treat Coverdale and Tyndale like competitors in a race to complete the monumental and arduous task of translating the biblical text. One is often credited to the exclusion of the other. In reality they knew each other and occasionally worked together. Foxe states that they were inHamburgtranslating the Pentateuch together as early as 1529.[7]
ThePrayer of Manasseswas the work ofJohn Rogers. Rogers translated from a French Bible printed two years earlier (in 1535). Rogers compiled the completed work and added the preface, some marginal notes, a calendar and an almanac.
Of the three translators, two were burned at the stake. Tyndale was burned on 6 October 1536 inVilvoorde,Belgium.[8]John Rogers was \"tested by fire\" on 4 February 1555 atSmithfield, England; the first to meet this fate underMary I of England. Myles Coverdale was employed byCromwellto work on theGreat Bibleof 1539, the first officially authorized English translation of the Bible.
Time and extensive scholastic scrutiny have judged Tyndale the most gifted of the three translators.Dr. Westcott(in hisHistory of the English Bible) states that \"The history of our English Bible begins with the work of Tyndale and not with that ofWycliffe.\" The quality of his translations has also stood the test of time, coming relatively intact even into modern versions of the Bible. A. S. Herbert, Bible cataloguer, says of the Matthew Bible, \"this version, which welds together the best work of Tyndale and Coverdale, is generally considered to be the real primary version of our English Bible\",[9]upon which later editions were based, including theGeneva BibleandKing James Version.[9]ProfessorDavid Daniellrecounts that, \"New Testament scholarsJon Nielson[10]andRoyal Skousenobserved that previous estimates of Tyndale\'s contribution to the KJV \'have run from a high of up to 90% (Westcott) to a low of 18% (Butterworth)\'. By a statistically accurate and appropriate method of sampling, based on eighteen portions of the Bible, they concluded that for the New Testament Tyndale\'s contribution is about 83% of the text, and in the Old Testament 76%.[11]Thus the Matthew Bible, though largely unrecognized, significantly shaped and influenced English Bible versions in the centuries that followed its first appearance.
Printing[edit]
John Strypewrote in 1694 that the 1537 Matthew Bible was printed byRichard Grafton, inHamburg.[12]Later editions were printed in London; the last of four appeared in 1551.[13]Two editions of the Matthew Bible were published in 1549. One was a reprint of the 1537 first edition, and was printed by Thomas Raynalde and William Hyll (Herbert #75). The other was printed by John Daye and William Seres,[14]and made extensive changes to the notes of the original Matthew Bible, included copious commentaries on the book of Revelation based on the bookImage of Two Churchesby contemporaryJohn Bale.
Van Meteren\'s son,Emanuel, stated in an affidavit dated 28 May 1609 that his father was \"a furtherer of reformed religion, and he that caused the first Bible at his costes to be Englisshed by Mr Myles Coverdal inAndwarp, the w?h his father, with Mr Edward Whytchurch, printed both inParisandLondon.\" Coverdale was employed as a translator byJacobus van Meteren. Rogers began assisting the work around 1535, and married J. van Meteren\'s niece Adriana in the same year that the Matthew Bible was first published (1537). Rogers was living in London again at the time of the second printing of the Matthew Bible in 1549.
Literature[edit]
