Taverner's Bible

Richard Taverner, The Most Sacred Bible, whiche is the holy scripture, conteyning the old and new testament, translated into English, and newly recognised with great diligence after most faythful exemplars, by Rychard Taverner. Prynted at London in Flete strete at the sygne of the sonne by John Byddell, for Thomas Barthlet. Cvm Privilegio ad imprimendum solum. MDXXXIX.

A revision of Matthew's Bible, in which the sharply Protestant notes are omitted or toned down.

Literature

• Harold H. Hutson and Harold R. Willoughby, "The Ignored Taverner Bible of 1539," The Crozer Quarterly, July 1939, pp. 161-175.
• "Taverner" in The Dictionary of National Biography edited by Leslie Stephen (London: Oxford University Press, 1917), vol. 19, pp. 392-396.