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.
Death of Tyndale from Foxe's “Book of Martyrs” (1583)
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of Theology, Southern Methodist University.