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History of the Bassandyne Bible, the first printed in Scotland with notices of the early printers of Edinburgh (1887)

Dobson, William T · Edinburgh, William Blackwood & sons · leaf 64

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f the volume mightescape the observation of a hasty and ignorantinquisitor.* King Henry VIII. died in January 1547, and wassucceeded by Edward VI., in whose short reign ofsix and a half years the restrictions were greatlyremoved, and many editions of the Bible were printed, * A copy of Miles… … THE CHAINED BIBLE. €r(inBfations of i^e (J$t6fe. 63 printed, but no new translation was undertaken.Then followed the dark period of Queen Mary,when no Bible was permitted to be printed, and byvarious proclamations the public or open readingof the Scriptures was prohibited, and when thosewho had…

Bassandyne, Thomas, d. 1577 · Bible · Printing · Printers

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