FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   21   22   23   24   25   26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45  
>>  
ege, Dublin, a very complete and interesting series of {122} antlered skulls of this animal. Should W. R. C. or any other reader of "NOTES AND QUERIES," desire further information on this subject, I will gladly, if in my power, afford it. S. P. H. T. (a M. R. D. S.) * * * * * Replies to Minor Queries. _Coverdale Bible_ (Vol. iii., p. 54.).--Your correspondent ECHO is quite right in declaring Mr. Granville Penn's statement, that Coverdale used Tyndale's _New Test_. in his Bible of 1535, to be quite wrong. Mr. Penn very probably took his statement from the Preface to D'Oyley and Mant's Bible, as published by the Christian Knowledge Society, which contains a very erroneous account of the earliest English versions. Tyndale's version of the New Testament was not incorporated in any version of the whole Bible till the publication of what is called Matthewe's Bible in 1537. For more particular statements confirmed by proofs, your correspondent may consult Anderson's _Annals of the English Bible_, under the dates of the respective editions, or his appendix to vol. ii., pp. viii., ix.; or Mr. Pearson's biographical notice of Coverdale, prefixed to the Parker Soc. edit. of his _Remains_; or the biographical notice of Tyndale, prefixed to the Parker Soc. edit. of his Works, pp. lxxiv., lxxv.; or _Two Letters to Bishop Marsh on the Independence of the Authorised Version_, published for me by Hatchard in 1827 and 1828. HENRY WALTER. * * * * * _Epitaph_ (Vol. iii., p. 57.).--The name of the "worthie knyght" is _Sir Thomas Gravener_, as A. B. R. might have seen in the printed Catalogue of the Harleian MSS. Who he was, is a more difficult question to answer; but there was a family of that name settled in Staffordshire, as appears from MS. Harl. 1476. fol. 250. The epitaph in question (at fol. 28 b of the old numbering, or 24 b of the new, _not_ fol. 25 b.) is inserted among several short poems written by Sir Thomas Wyatt; and the epitaph itself has a capital W affixed to it, as if it were also of his composition: but I do not find it inserted in Dr. Nott's edition of his poetical works, in 1816; nor does this MS. appear to have been consulted by Dr. Nott. And here I may take the liberty of remarking, how desirable it is that your correspondents, in sending any extracts from old English MSS. to the "NOTES AND QUERIES," should adhere strictly to the origin
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   21   22   23   24   25   26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45  
>>  



Top keywords:

Coverdale

 

Tyndale

 
English
 

statement

 

question

 

published

 

correspondent

 
Parker
 

QUERIES

 

version


epitaph

 

notice

 

prefixed

 
Thomas
 
biographical
 

inserted

 

appears

 
Staffordshire
 

family

 

answer


settled
 

WALTER

 
Epitaph
 

Hatchard

 

worthie

 

knyght

 

Catalogue

 

Harleian

 

printed

 
Gravener

difficult

 

consulted

 

poetical

 
liberty
 

adhere

 
strictly
 
origin
 

extracts

 

sending

 
remarking

desirable

 
correspondents
 
edition
 

numbering

 

Version

 

composition

 

affixed

 
capital
 
written
 

Anderson