One of the world’s rarest Bibles goes on display at St Paul’s Cathedral
One of the great treasures of the English language is going on display for the first time, offering a rare chance to see a book that was once hunted down and burned as heresy.The book is one of only three surviving copies of the 1526 Tyndale New Testament, a translation so controversial that King Henry VIII’s agents spent years trying to suppress it and track down its creator across Europe.
Its significance is difficult to overstate.
Not only did it help fuel the religious upheavals that t
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