Hidden Text Found In 500-Year-Old English Bible
Geo Beats
2016-03-16
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Hidden writing found in a Bible printed in 1535 is proving to be quite valuable in providing a more complete picture of the English Reformation.
Hidden writing found in England's first printed Bible published in 1535 is proving to be quite valuable in providing a more complete picture of the English Reformation.
The book itself is kept at the Lambeth Palace Library in London, and until recently was considered to be a rather clean copy.
Not long ago, historian Dr. Eyal Poleg from Queen Mary University of London noticed parts of the Bible had plain paper pasted onto them, as if to conceal something below.
3D X-ray imaging revealed that the Latin Bible had been annotated with excerpts from Thomas Cromwell’s English language ‘Great Bible.’
Hidden writing found in England's first printed Bible published in 1535 is proving to be quite valuable in providing a more complete picture of the English Reformation.
The book itself is kept at the Lambeth Palace Library in London, and until recently was considered to be a rather clean copy.
Not long ago, historian Dr. Eyal Poleg from Queen Mary University of London noticed parts of the Bible had plain paper pasted onto them, as if to conceal something below.
3D X-ray imaging revealed that the Latin Bible had been annotated with excerpts from Thomas Cromwell’s English language ‘Great Bible.’
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