Excerpt from Catalogue of an Exhibition of Books, Portraits, and Facsimiles Illustrating the History of the English Translation of the Bible: In Commemoration of the Tercentenary Anniversary of the King James Version, 1611 at the Yale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut, April, 1911

Portrait. Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, 1489-1556. in National worthies being a selection from the National portrait gallery. Westminster, 1899] Cranmer wrote the preface to the 1540 edition of The Great Bible, often called Crammer's Bible.

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