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| Author | Nicholas Udall |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Edward Whitchurch, Richard Grafton |
Publication date | 1548 |
| Publication place | England |
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The First tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the new testament or the Paraphrase of Erasmus is the first volume of a book combining an English translation of the New Testament interleaved with an English translation of Desiderius Erasmus's Latin paraphrase of the New Testament.[1] It was edited by Nicholas Udall and first published in January 1548 by Edward Whitchurch.[2] The second volume was published in 1549.[3] Translations were by Nicolas Udall, Catherine Parr, Thomas Key, Miles Coverdale, John Olde, Leonard Coxe, and Mary I of England.
According to a royal Injunction of 1547, copies were to be kept in every parish church in England, emphasizing the influence of Erasmus on the English Reformation.
- ^ Herbert, Arthur Sumner; Thomas Herbert Darlow; Horace Frederick Moule (1968). Historical catalogue of printed editions of the English Bible: 1525-1961. British & Foreign Bible Society. pp. 38–40.
- ^ Devereux, E.J. (1968). A checklist of English translations of Erasmus to 1700. Oxford Bibliographical Society. p. 24.
- ^ Tyssen-Amherst, William; Seymour de Ricci (1906). A hand-list of a collection of books and manuscripts belonging to the Right Hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney. Cambridge UP. p. 71.
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