Biblia sacra polyglotta : complectentia textus originales, Hebraicum, cum Pentateucho Samaritano, Chaldaicum, Græcum : versionumque antiquarum, Samaritanæ, Græcæ LXXII interp., Chaldaicæ, Syriacæ, Arabicæ, Æthiopicæ, Persicæ, Vulg. Lat., quicquid compari poterat : cum textuum & versionum orientalium translationibus Latinis : ex vetustissimis mss. undique conquisitis, optimísque exemplaribus impressis, summâ fide collatis : quæ in prioribus editionibus deerant suppleta, multa antehac inedita, de novo adjecta, omnia eo ordine disposita, ut textus cum versionibus uno intuitu conferri possint : cum apparatu, appendicibus, tabulis, variis lectionibus, annotationibus, indicibus, &c. : opus totum in sex tomos tributum /
| Uniform Title: | Bible. |
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| Other Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Microform Book |
| Language: | Latin Multiple languages |
| Published: |
Londini :
Imprimebat Thomas Roycroft,
MDCLVII [1657]
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| Series: | Early English books, 1641-1700 ;
1167, 1168, 1169. |
| Item Description: | Texts in Vulgate Latin, Arabic, Aramaic (the Targum Onkelos), Ethiopic, Greek (the Septuagint), Hebrew, Persian, and Syriac (the Peshitta); editorial matter in Latin. Collective title page, illustrated title page, and frontispiece bound at the beginning of volume 1. Added illustrated title page reads: S.S. Biblia polyglotta. Volumes 1-5 contain the Biblical texts. The unnumbered 6th volume, "Ad Biblia sacra polyglotta appendix," has critical essays, appendices, variant readings, annotations, and indexes. The 1st volume contains Walton's preface, essays, a plan, and the prolegomena; the Biblical text begins after the 1st special title page: Bibliorum sacrorum tomus primus. Each volume has special title page Vol. 1 is dated 1653; vol. 2, 1655; vol. 3, 1656; volumes 4-5 and Appendix, 1657. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Walton signed: Lombart sculpsit; engraved title page signed: W. Hollar fecit. Volumes 1-2 appear on reel 1167, volumes 3-4 on reel 1168, and vols. 5-6 on reel 1169. Imperfect: volume 1 has first signature O1 lacking. Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library. Microform. |
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| Physical Description: | 6 volumes : illustrations, plan, portrait |