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- The Psalter actually in now at the present time throughout
the English speaking world, whenever the Book of
Common Prayer is the manual fn worship, is the
1535 version of the Psalms by Miles Covendale, revised
by Coverdale himself fn the Great Biblbe.

[inserted] J.F. Mozley p 324 220.52 I535m [end inserted] Coverdale 1535, Oct 4: translates Biblia, The Bible; [Cologne,
Soter + Cervicorn] ; fol.; S.T.C. 2063.
Reprinted with a few emendations in 1537 by Nicolson
in both folio + quarto, + again in 1550 by
C. Froschover of Zurich in quarto. (ascribed the translation to
Thomas Matthew.)

The Tavern Bible - printed by John Bydell fn Thomas Berthelet
in 1539. The book is a revision of Matthew, or a much less
thorough revision than that of the Great Bible.

in 1538 an edition of Coverdale's New Testament was published in 16 mo
only a few copies are extant

- In Luther's New Testament of 1522 he separated the last books
(Hebrews, James, Jude, and Revelation) from the 1st 23, fn he did
not think the 4 books had the same high canonical quality as
the "capital books".
- Coverdale's Bible was the 1st to introduce chapter summaries as
distinct from the terse chapter headings found in copies of the Vulgate.
3) the first to separate the books of the Apocrypha from the other
Old Testament books and print them by themselves as an appendix
T. the Old Testament
- According to Lovett the 1537 edition his 56 different woodblocks
in a total of 94 illustrations. 3 of the 1535 Bible were not
used, + the Apocrypha has only 1 in the text as compared
with 33 in the 1535 edition.
1537 - the edition was in fact littl emore than tyndale Coverdale
text differently mainly in the use of the illustrations woodcuts.

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