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The Byble in Englyshe : that is to saye the content of all the holy scrypture, bothe of the olde & newe testament / with a prologe therinto made by the reverende father in God, Thomas archebysshop of Cantorbury ; this is the Byble apoynted to the use of churches.

Accession number
PML 918
Published
[London] : Printed by Rycharde Grafton [or Edward Whitchurch], An. do. M.D.xl. [1540, i.e. 1541].
Credit line
Purchased with the Roberts collection, 1899.
Notes
Colophon in facsimile gives November 1541, should be Dec. 1541.
Date on title page:" M.D.xl."
Title paged and the Kalender printed in red and black.
General title and title to pt. 4 (Apocrypha) within woodcut border by Master of François de Rohan showing Henry VIII, Cranmer, and Cromwell distributing Bibles. Title page woodcut often misattributed to Hans Holbein.
Description
[10], lxxxiiij, cxxiii, [1], cxxxii, lxxx, cii, [2] leaves ; 40 cm (fol)
Provenance
Robert Roberts of Boston, Lincs., entire Bible collection purchased by Pierpont Morgan via Sotheran, June 1899.
Binding
Light brown morocco by W. Pratt.
Classification
Department