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Title: Great Bible, 1549
Creator: Coverdale, Miles, 1488-1568
Whitchurch, Edward, -1561
Ege, Otto F
Date Created and/or Issued: 1549
Contributing Institution: Loyola Marymount University, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library
Collection: Early Manuscripts and Printed Book Leaves Collection
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Description: Caption: "Leaf from a Great Bible, 1549 A.D., Imprynted at London in Fletestrete at the signe of the Sunne over agaynst the conduyte by Edwarde Whitchurche; A revision by Coverdale of Matthew's Bible under the patronage of Thomas Cromwell, hence sometimes known as 'Cromwell's Bible.' The first editions were large folios. In 1538 an order was given to the clergy that 'one boke of the whole Bible, in the largest volume, in Englyshe, sett up in summe convenyent place within the churche that ye have cure of, whereat your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and rede yt' (Darlow and Moule 49)."
Type: text
Identifier: b1d01ba0-3547-42a3-88a9-2b63c372f6a7
https://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/documents/detail/12301
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Language: English
Subject: Bible--History
Printing--England--History--16th century
Early printed books--Specimens
Printing--Specimens
Place: London (England)
Source: Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University
Relation: Original leaves from famous Bibles : nine centuries 1121-1935 A.D. : collected and assembled by Otto F. Ege; BS399.L3 E33

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