1549 2024 Folio Matthew's BIBLE LEAF - We Pick - Book Of Psalms - Tyndale Geneva RARE

1549 Matthew's Bible Folio Size Genuine Leaf

We choose your Leaf from the Book of Psalms
We will ship one 450+ year old leaf to you
Contact us if you have a specific request

Features:
Thick cotton-rag paper.
Two column black letter font with 65 lines to the full column.
Folio size (11" x 7.75").
Overall condition of the leaves is very good. Various degrees of staining and browning.
Each leaf has at least one woodcut initial.
These leaves are 2024 quite scarce and sell elsewhere online for $400+ per leaf.

Shipping:
All of our leaves will be protected between two sheets of cardboard and shipped via USPS Priority Mail.

History:
William Tyndale (1494-1536) began to craft a new English translation of the Bible in 1524. Armed with Erasmus' Greek New Testament and Luther's German text, he completed his English translation of the New Testament in just one year. The printing shop was raided, forcing him to began anew and he released a smaller version in 1526.

While working on his Old Testament translation, Tyndale was betrayed and arrested. He was convicted of heresy, strangled, and burned at the stake. His last words were: “Lord, open the king of England's eyes.”

Within a year his prayers were answered. His colleague Miles Coverdale (1488-1568) completed the first English translation of the Bible in 1535.

John Rogers (1505-1555) worked on a translation that used Tyndale's work, completing the Old Testament based upon the Hebrew text. This version was first released in 1537 under the pseudonym of Thomas Matthew. This Bible is known as the Matthew's Bible or the Tyndale-Matthew Bible and welds together the best work of Tyndale and Coverdale. According to Herbert, this version is generally considered to be the primary version of our English Bible.

These specific leaves originate from a 1549 reprint of the 1537 Matthew's Bible with the notes revised by Edmund Becke.

This Bible was purchased at auction, and has been well-loved by the previous owners who are distant cousins of William Tyndale himself.

Herbert 74. STC 2077.