BIBLE, Complutensian Polygot. Vetus testamentum multiplici lingua nunc primo impressum. Et imprimis Pentateuchus Hebraico Grego atque Chaldaico idiomate. Adiuncta unicuique sua latina interpretatione; Novum testamentum grece latine in academia complutensi noviter impressum; Vocabularium hebraicum atque chaldaicum veteris testamenti cum aliistra tractatibus prout infra in prefatione continentus . Edited by Diego Lopez Suñiga, Aelio Antonio de Lebrija (Nebrissensis), Demetrius Ducas, Alonso de Zamora, and others. Alcalá de Henares: Arnald Guillén de Brocar, for Cardinal Francisco Ximenes de Cisneros, 10 January 1514-10 July 1517 [published not before March 1520 (date of papal privilege)]. Six volumes bound in seven, royal 2 o (365 x 263 mm). Collates as Darlow & Moule (vol. I: -A1 blank; vol. III: -a1,2 errata at end; vol. V: without a 1 0 , a-f 6 g 4 at end [ Introductio qua brevissima ad grecas litteras and Interpretationes ], here supplied from another copy and forming the contents of vol. VII; vol VI: -π2 and 3 C4 blanks; vol. VII: a10 and 2 a1 bound out of sequence, -g4 blank.) Hebrew, Greek, Roman and Gothic types. Woodcut arms of Cardinal Ximenes on title-pages of all but the last volume, within woodcut borders, woodcut initials, printer's device in vols. IV-VI, initial spaces with printed guide-letters. (Some occasional browning, pale dampstaining and spotting, a few old marginal repairs, some intermittent worming occasionally catching a few letters.) 18th-century French speckled calf, spines gilt (some wear at extremities and along joints). Provenance : Petri Ludovici Ruvialis (early signatures on titles of vols. I, II, III, IV, VI) -- Andrea Solex (early inscription on title of vol. V) -- British Museum (stamp at end of Vol. VII) -- Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), son of King George III (bookplates in each vol.) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplates) -- donated to SMS 20 June 1946. THE FIRST OF THE GREAT POLYGLOT BIBLES. FIRST PRINTING OF THE SEPTUAGINT AND THE FIRST PRINTING OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IN GREEK. Cardinal Ximenes, founder of the University at Alcalá, initiated this Complutensian Polyglot Bible in 1502 in honor of the birth of the future Charles V. A team of editors turned to the original texts in order to reconcile the many variations in the Latin Vulgate. Ximenes purchased Greek and Hebrew manuscripts specifically for this purpose. Other manuscripts were lent by Leo X, on one of which Guillén de Brocar modelled his Greek type, cited by Proctor as "the finest Greek fount ever cut." The New Testament, volume V, was the first volume printed, in 1514, and thus predates Erasmus's Greek New Testament of 1516. The printing of the Septaugint, vols. I-IV, was finished in 1517 and thus predates the Aldine Greek Bible of 1518. Although completed in 1517, the Polyglot Bible was not published until 1520, the year in which Erasmus's papal privilege for his Greek New Testament expired; a vellum copy was presented to the Pope in December 1521. The papal privilege granted for the Complutensian Polyglot Bible in March 1520 specifies that as many as 600 copies were printed. Adams B968; Brunet I, 849-50; Darlow & Moule 1412 and 4593; PMM 52. (7)
BIBLE, Complutensian Polygot. Vetus testamentum multiplici lingua nunc primo impressum. Et imprimis Pentateuchus Hebraico Grego atque Chaldaico idiomate. Adiuncta unicuique sua latina interpretatione; Novum testamentum grece latine in academia complutensi noviter impressum; Vocabularium hebraicum atque chaldaicum veteris testamenti cum aliistra tractatibus prout infra in prefatione continentus . Edited by Diego Lopez Suñiga, Aelio Antonio de Lebrija (Nebrissensis), Demetrius Ducas, Alonso de Zamora, and others. Alcalá de Henares: Arnald Guillén de Brocar, for Cardinal Francisco Ximenes de Cisneros, 10 January 1514-10 July 1517 [published not before March 1520 (date of papal privilege)]. Six volumes bound in seven, royal 2 o (365 x 263 mm). Collates as Darlow & Moule (vol. I: -A1 blank; vol. III: -a1,2 errata at end; vol. V: without a 1 0 , a-f 6 g 4 at end [ Introductio qua brevissima ad grecas litteras and Interpretationes ], here supplied from another copy and forming the contents of vol. VII; vol VI: -π2 and 3 C4 blanks; vol. VII: a10 and 2 a1 bound out of sequence, -g4 blank.) Hebrew, Greek, Roman and Gothic types. Woodcut arms of Cardinal Ximenes on title-pages of all but the last volume, within woodcut borders, woodcut initials, printer's device in vols. IV-VI, initial spaces with printed guide-letters. (Some occasional browning, pale dampstaining and spotting, a few old marginal repairs, some intermittent worming occasionally catching a few letters.) 18th-century French speckled calf, spines gilt (some wear at extremities and along joints). Provenance : Petri Ludovici Ruvialis (early signatures on titles of vols. I, II, III, IV, VI) -- Andrea Solex (early inscription on title of vol. V) -- British Museum (stamp at end of Vol. VII) -- Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), son of King George III (bookplates in each vol.) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplates) -- donated to SMS 20 June 1946. THE FIRST OF THE GREAT POLYGLOT BIBLES. FIRST PRINTING OF THE SEPTUAGINT AND THE FIRST PRINTING OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IN GREEK. Cardinal Ximenes, founder of the University at Alcalá, initiated this Complutensian Polyglot Bible in 1502 in honor of the birth of the future Charles V. A team of editors turned to the original texts in order to reconcile the many variations in the Latin Vulgate. Ximenes purchased Greek and Hebrew manuscripts specifically for this purpose. Other manuscripts were lent by Leo X, on one of which Guillén de Brocar modelled his Greek type, cited by Proctor as "the finest Greek fount ever cut." The New Testament, volume V, was the first volume printed, in 1514, and thus predates Erasmus's Greek New Testament of 1516. The printing of the Septaugint, vols. I-IV, was finished in 1517 and thus predates the Aldine Greek Bible of 1518. Although completed in 1517, the Polyglot Bible was not published until 1520, the year in which Erasmus's papal privilege for his Greek New Testament expired; a vellum copy was presented to the Pope in December 1521. The papal privilege granted for the Complutensian Polyglot Bible in March 1520 specifies that as many as 600 copies were printed. Adams B968; Brunet I, 849-50; Darlow & Moule 1412 and 4593; PMM 52. (7)
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