The New Testament 1526 - A Facsimile
Edition translated by William Tyndale
The publication in 1526 of a modestly-priced
pocket edition of the New Testament in English
was arguably the most important single event
in the history of the English Reformation.
Between 1525 and 1535 William Tyndale
gave us the English Bible, translating the
whole of the New Testament and half of the
Old Testament. His pocket-sized Bibles were
smuggled into England, ruthlessly sought out
by the Church, confiscated and destroyed.
Tyndale himself was condemned as a heretic,
strangled and burned outside Brussels in 1536.
This volume is a complete facsimile of William
Tyndale's pioneering translation of the New
Testament from Greek into English, held at
the British Library, and only one of the two
last copies remaining in the world.
David Daniell is Chairman Emeritus of
the Tyndale Society and has written and
lectured extensively on Tyndale's Bible.
He is author of William Tyndale:
A Biography (Yale University
Press 1994).
