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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
6 volumes : illustrations, maps, plans, portrait
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 6.
Added illustrated title page reads: S.S. Biblia polyglotta.
Volumes 1-5 contain the Biblical texts. The unnumbered 6th volume contains Walton's preface, essays, plans, maps, and the prolegomena (all of which were bound at the beginning of Vol. 1 in the original edition [Wing B2797]), plus "Ad Biblia sacra polyglotta appendix," which has critical essays, appendices, variant readings, annotations, and indexes.
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 1170, volumes 3-4 on reel 1171, and vols. 5-6 on reel 1172.
Imperfect: volume 2, pages 216-17 missed in photographing. Bristol Reference Library no longer available as a microfilming source; best copy available for photographing.
Reproduction of original in the Bristol Reference Library.
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1981. 3 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 : 1170, 1171, 1172)
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