Formatting the Word of God: The Charles Caldwell Ryrie Collection
7. Outlawed English
7.2
William Tyndale’s Pentateuch, 1530. Colophon to Genesis: Emprented
at Malborow in the lande of Hesse, by me Hans Luft, the yere of oure Lorde.
M.CCCCC.xxx. the xvij. dayes of Januarij. [Thought to be a false imprimatur
for Johannes Hoochstraten of Antwerp].
Octavo. 378 leaves ([8], lxxvi, [4]; [8], lxxvi; [8],
lii; [10], lxvii; [4], lxiii, [1]), 6 × 3¾ inches. Bastarda
and roman, lines vary from book to book; titles within woodcut borders,
eleven full-page woodcut illustrations. Bound in 19th-century dark blue
morocco; spine gilt. Lacking one blank. § DMH 4; STC (2nd ed.) 2350.
fol. H8v (detail)
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of Theology, Southern Methodist University.