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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
1 online resource (6 volume : illustrations, plan, 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 t.p., illustrated t.p., and frontispiece bound at the beginning of volume 1.
Added illustrated t.p. reads: S.S. Biblia polyglotta.
Vols. 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 t.p.: Bibliorum sacrorum tomus primus.
Each volume has special t.p. Vol. 1 is dated 1653; volume 2, 1655; volume 3, 1656; volumes 4-5 and Appendix, 1657.
Engraved frontispiece portrait of Walton signed: Lombart sculpsit; engraved t.p. signed: W. Hollar fecit.
Vols. 1-2 appear on reel 1167, volumes 3-4 on reel 1168, and volumes 5-6 on reel 1169.
Imperfect: volume 1 has first signature O1 lacking.
Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1167, 1168, 1169) s1999 miun s
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