James Coverdale

MILES CLOVERDALE
c.1488-1569

Bishop of Exeter and believed to be a native of York.
He translated and published the first complete printed
English Bible (1535) and revised the Great Bible of 1539
sponsored by Thomas Cromwell.

He was a major figure of the English Reformation and
the Authorised version of the Bible (1611) and the Psalms
in the Book of Common Prayer (1662) depend heavily on
his work. Copies of his translations were long kept in this
building which, from its erection c.1420 to 1810,
housed York Minster Library.

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