Coat of Arms of Myles Coverdale
Emblem of York Civic Trust

MILES COVERDALE
c.1488-1569

Bishop of Exeter and believed to be a native of York. He translated and published the first complete printed English Bible (1535) and revised the Great Bible of 1539, sponsored by Thomas Cromwell.
He was a major figure of the English Reformation and the Authorised Version of the Bible (1611) and the Psalms in the Book of Common Prayer (1662) depend heavily on his work. Copies of his translations were long kept in this building which, from its erection c.1420 until 1810, housed the York Minster Library.

One of a series of plaques on behalf of York Civic Trust commemorating historic places in the city of York.

The plaque is on the wall of York Cathedral’s gift shop, commemorating the Bishop of Exeter who was best known as a translator of the Bible.

The place where the sign is located was photographed on the same day by the same photographer Click for a larger image