Myles Coverdale (1488-1569) was a significant figure in the early English Reformation and Bible translation. He was a native of York, a Cambridge graduate, and initially an Augustinian friar. Coverdale left his orders after being influenced by the Reformation movement and spent time on the continent, where he assisted William Tyndale with Bible translation. In 1535, Coverdale published the first complete printed English Bible, known as the "Coverdale Bible". Large portions of the Old Testament in this translation were based on the Latin Vulgate and Martin Luther's German Bible. Coverdale also contributed to other important Bible translations, including editing the Great Bible of 1539 and participating in the preparation of the Geneva Bible in 1560. Throughout his life, Coverdale faced periods of exile due to changing political and religious climates in England. Despite not being the scholar that Tyndale was, Coverdale's work was crucial in making the Bible accessible to English-speaking people.

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