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The Coverdale Bible, compiled by Myles Coverdale
Myles Coverdale

Myles Coverdale was a 1600s Bible translator who produced the first complete printed translation of the Bible into English language....
 and published in 1535, was the first complete Modern English
Modern English

Modern English is the form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift, completed in roughly 1550.Despite some differences in vocabulary, texts from the early 17th century, such as the works of William Shakespeare and the King James Bible, are considered to be in Modern English, or more specifically, are referred to as using...
 translation of the Bible (not just the Old Testament
Old Testament

In Western Christianity, the Old Testament refers to the books that form the first of the two-part Christianity Bible Biblical canon. These works correspond to the Hebrew Bible , with some variations and additions....
 or New Testament
New Testament

The New Testament is the name given to the second major division of the Christianity Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
), and the first complete printed translation into English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 (cf. Wycliffe’s Bible
John Wycliffe

John Wycliffe was an English theologian, lay preacher, translator and reformist. Wycliffe was an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century....
 in manuscript). The later editions (folio
Folio

Folio may refer to:* In bookbinding,** A sheet of paper, parchment, or other material folded in half to make two leaves in a codex.** Mainly for manuscripts, a leaf ....
 and quarto
Quarto

Quarto could refer to:Texts:* A Quarto is a Bookbinding#Terms and techniques and publishing, and the books of the resulting size, when four leaves of a book are created from a standard size sheet of paper...
) published in 1539 were the first complete Bibles printed in England. The 1539 folio
Folio

Folio may refer to:* In bookbinding,** A sheet of paper, parchment, or other material folded in half to make two leaves in a codex.** Mainly for manuscripts, a leaf ....
 edition carried the royal licence and was therefore the first officially approved Bible translation in English.

The place of publication of the 1535 edition was long disputed.






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The Coverdale Bible, compiled by Myles Coverdale
Myles Coverdale

Myles Coverdale was a 1600s Bible translator who produced the first complete printed translation of the Bible into English language....
 and published in 1535, was the first complete Modern English
Modern English

Modern English is the form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift, completed in roughly 1550.Despite some differences in vocabulary, texts from the early 17th century, such as the works of William Shakespeare and the King James Bible, are considered to be in Modern English, or more specifically, are referred to as using...
 translation of the Bible (not just the Old Testament
Old Testament

In Western Christianity, the Old Testament refers to the books that form the first of the two-part Christianity Bible Biblical canon. These works correspond to the Hebrew Bible , with some variations and additions....
 or New Testament
New Testament

The New Testament is the name given to the second major division of the Christianity Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
), and the first complete printed translation into English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 (cf. Wycliffe’s Bible
John Wycliffe

John Wycliffe was an English theologian, lay preacher, translator and reformist. Wycliffe was an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century....
 in manuscript). The later editions (folio
Folio

Folio may refer to:* In bookbinding,** A sheet of paper, parchment, or other material folded in half to make two leaves in a codex.** Mainly for manuscripts, a leaf ....
 and quarto
Quarto

Quarto could refer to:Texts:* A Quarto is a Bookbinding#Terms and techniques and publishing, and the books of the resulting size, when four leaves of a book are created from a standard size sheet of paper...
) published in 1539 were the first complete Bibles printed in England. The 1539 folio
Folio

Folio may refer to:* In bookbinding,** A sheet of paper, parchment, or other material folded in half to make two leaves in a codex.** Mainly for manuscripts, a leaf ....
 edition carried the royal licence and was therefore the first officially approved Bible translation in English.

The place of publication of the 1535 edition was long disputed. The printer was assumed to be either Froschover in Zurich or Cervicornus and Soter (in Cologne or Marburg). Since the discovery of Guido Latré in 1997, the printer has been identified as Merten de Keyser
Merten de Keyser

Merten de Keyser was a 16th-century French printer and publisher working manily in Antwerp, who produced the first complete French language and the first complete Coverdale Bible Bible translations as well as a number of works by English Protestant authors....
 in Antwerp
Antwerp

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. The publication was partly financed by Jacobus van Meteren
Jacobus van Meteren

Sir Jacobus van Meteren was the financier and printer of early English versions of the Bible. He was involved in the printing of an edition of Tyndale Bible New Testament in 1535 ....
 in Antwerp, whose sister-in-law, Adriana de Weyden, married John Rogers. The other backer of the Coverdale Bible was Jacobus van Meteren
Jacobus van Meteren

Sir Jacobus van Meteren was the financier and printer of early English versions of the Bible. He was involved in the printing of an edition of Tyndale Bible New Testament in 1535 ....
’s nephew, Leonard Ortels (†1539), father of Abraham Ortelius
Abraham Ortelius

Abraham Ortelius was a Flemish people cartographer and geographer, generally recognised as the creator of the first modern world atlas ....
 (1527-1598), the famous humanist geographer and cartographer.

Although Coverdale
Myles Coverdale

Myles Coverdale was a 1600s Bible translator who produced the first complete printed translation of the Bible into English language....
 was also involved in the preparation of the Great Bible
Great Bible

The Great Bible was the first authorized edition of the Bible in English, authorized by King Henry VIII of England to be read aloud in the church services of the Church of England....
 of 1539, the Coverdale Bible continued to be reprinted. The last of over 20 editions of the whole Bible or its New Testament appeared in 1553.

Coverdale
Myles Coverdale

Myles Coverdale was a 1600s Bible translator who produced the first complete printed translation of the Bible into English language....
 based his New Testament
New Testament

The New Testament is the name given to the second major division of the Christianity Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
 on Tyndale’s
William Tyndale

William Tyndale was a 16th-century Protestant reformer and scholar who, influenced by the work of Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther, translated the Bible into the Early Modern English of his day....
 translation. For the Old Testament
Old Testament

In Western Christianity, the Old Testament refers to the books that form the first of the two-part Christianity Bible Biblical canon. These works correspond to the Hebrew Bible , with some variations and additions....
, Coverdale used Tyndale’s published Pentateuch and possibly his published Jonah
Jonah

According to the Hebrew Bible and Arab Qur'an, Jonah was a prophet who was swallowed by a great fish....
. He apparently did not make use of any of Tyndale’s other, unpublished, Old Testament
Old Testament

In Western Christianity, the Old Testament refers to the books that form the first of the two-part Christianity Bible Biblical canon. These works correspond to the Hebrew Bible , with some variations and additions....
 material (cf. Matthew Bible
Matthew Bible

The Matthew Bible, also known as Matthew's Bible, was first published in 1537 under the pseudonym "Thomas Matthew". It combined Myles Coverdale's work with the maximum of William Tyndale's, and thus began the main sequence of English Bible translations....
). Instead, Coverdale himself translated the remaining books of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha
Biblical apocrypha

The biblical apocrypha are Books of the Bible published in an edition of the Bible whose Biblical canon the publisher either rejects or doubts....
. Not being a Hebrew or Greek scholar, he worked primarily from German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
 Bibles—Luther’s Bible
Luther Bible

The Luther Bible is a German language Bible translation by Martin Luther, first printed with both testaments in 1534. This translation is considered to be largely responsible for the evolution of the modern German language....
 and the Swiss-German version (Zürich Bible
Zürich Bible

The Z?rich Bible is a Bible translation historically based on the translation by Huldrych Zwingli. Recent editions have the stated aim of maximal philological exactitude....
) of Zwingli
Huldrych Zwingli

Huldrych Zwingli was a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland. Born during a time of emerging Old Swiss Confederacy patriotism and increasing criticism of the Swiss mercenaries, he attended the University of Vienna and the University of Basel, a scholarly centre of Renaissance humanism....
 and Juda
Leo Jud

Leo Jud, , known to his contemporaries as Meister Leu, Swiss reformer, was born in Alsace.He was educated at Basel, where after a course in medicine he turned to the study of theology....
—and Latin sources including the Vulgate
Vulgate

The Vulgate is an early Fifth Century version of the Bible in Latin, and largely the result of the labors of Jerome, who was commissioned by Pope Damasus I in 382 to make a revision of Vetus Latina....
.

External links

  • in Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
    Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

    Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible was a five-volume Biblical encyclopaedia published 1898—1904....
    , 1909]