Everything about The Coverdale Bible totally explained
The
Coverdale Bible, compiled by
Myles Coverdale and published in
1535, was the first complete
Modern English translation of the Bible (not just the
Old Testament or
New Testament), and the first complete printed translation into
English (cf.
Wycliffe’s Bible in manuscript). The later editions (
folio and
quarto) published in
1539 were the first complete Bibles printed in England. The
1539 folio 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 in
Antwerp. The publication was partly financed by
Jacobus van Meteren in Antwerp. The other backer of the Coverdale Bible was
Jacobus van Meteren’s nephew,
Leonard Ortels (†
1539), father of
Abraham Ortelius (
1527-
1598), the famous humanist geographer and cartographer.
Although
Coverdale was also involved in the preparation of the
Great Bible 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 based his
New Testament on
Tyndale’s translation. For the
Old Testament, Coverdale used Tyndale’s published
Pentateuch and possibly his published
Jonah. He apparently didn't make use of any of Tyndale’s other, unpublished,
Old Testament material (cf.
Matthew Bible). Instead, Coverdale himself translated the remaining books of the Old Testament and the
Apocrypha. Not being a Hebrew or Greek scholar, he worked primarily from
German Bibles—
Luther’s Bible and the Swiss-German version (
Zürich Bible) of
Zwingli and
Juda—and Latin sources including the
Vulgate.
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