EDITIONS OF THE BIBLE, AND PARTS THEREOF, FROM THE YEAR 1525 TO 1850. N. B.-An asterisk added to the date denotes that the year is not expressed, but that it is believed to be ascertained by circumstantial evidence. REIGN OF KING HENRY VIII. 1525*. THE GOSPEL of ST. MATTHEW, (translated by William Tyndale,) "printed as it was written by the Evangelist". The GOSPEL of ST. MARK (by the same.) Supposed to have been printed at Hamburgha. *The NEWE TESTAMENT in Englysshe, (translated by W. Tyndale,) with Glosses and a Prologue. Begun at Cologne, by P. Quentel; and finished at Worms, by Peter Schoeffer. -British Museumb. a No fragment of this first-fruit of Tyndale's scriptural labours is known to be remaining. See Anderson's Annals of the English Bible, vol. i. p. 153, &c. and the Biography of Tyndale, prefixed to the reprint of his Doctrinal works by the Parker Society in 1848. b Only a single fragment of this edition now remains, containing, on 31 leaves, the Prologue, and part of St. Matthew's Gospel. It was discovered in 1834 by Mr. Rodd, an intelligent bookseller of London, who with great diligence and tact traced out the particulars of its publication. It afterwards passed into the hands of the right hon. Thomas B Grenville; and is now, with the rest of the magnificent Grenville library, in the British Museum. See a collation of it in the Appendix; a more full one in the "Bibliotheca Grenvilliana;" and a minute description, accompanied by three fac-similes, executed for Mr. Rodd in 1831, in Anderson's Annals of the Bible, vol. i. p. 52-64. Le Long appears to have been aware of this edition, as printed at those two towns. N. B.-The Prologue, and also the glosses, or marginal notes, have been reprinted, in Tyndale's Doctrinal Treatises, published by the Parker Society in 1848. |