Biblia Sacra Polyglotta: Textus archetypos versionesque praecipuas ab Ecclesia antiquitatus receptas; Necnon Versiones Recentiores Anglicanam, Germanicam, Italicam, Gallicam, et Hispanicam, Complectentia. Accedunt Prolegomena in Textuum Archetyporum, Versionumque Antiquarum Crisin Literalem. (Hebrew, English, Greek, Latin, German, French, Italian, Spanish, with Syriac)
Londini (London): Sumptbus Samuelis Bagster (Samuel Bagster), 1831. Later edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio (15 2/8 x 10 1/2). 52pp (Prolegomena), the rest unpaginated. Original green pebbled leather with black-stamped ruling and decorative border on cover, gilt lettering and black-stamped tooling on spine; raised bands. Gilt ruling on leather border of inside covers. Gilt edges. Green endpapers.
The most inclusive of the great Polyglots since the London, or Walton's Polyglot of 1655-1657, Samuel Bagster's folio edition of the polyglot Bible was published in 1828, repeated in 1831, and subsequently. (Darlow & Moule 1456).
Encompassing the complete Old and New Testaments in eight languages at one view, four on each page (Hebrew, English, Greek, Latin on one, and German, French, Italian and Spanish on opposing side. It includes a Prolegomena in Latin by Samuel Lee.
The original Hebrew text of the Old Testament is from the celebrated edition of Everard van der Hooght (1705); The Septuagint Greek version is from the Vatican edition, edited by Cardinal Carafa; The Vulgate Latin version is from the edition of Sixtus V and Clement VIII; The Authorized English version, with marginal readings and a selection of parallel texts; The German version is from the edition of Martin Luther; The French version is from J. F. Ostervald; The Italian version is from Giovanni Diodati; The Spanish version is from Father Scio.
The Hebrew New Testament is edited by W. Greenfield; The Syriac version of the New Testament is from the edition of J. A. Widmanstadt (1555); The Hebrew-Samaritan Pentateuch is according to Dr. Kennicott; The various readings of the Septuagint version, from the edition published by Grabe; and the various readings of the Greek New Testament is by Griesbach.
Some wear along edges, scuffing of corners and joints at and on raised bands with two inch closed tear at bottom of front joint, half inch at top of back joint. Small dent fat center of front cover. Top edges of back cover about half way scuffed. A small chip on back cover and three scratches of about two inches each. Starting at inside front cover. Ex Libris of Wm. R. Blumenthal on green front endpaper, another name inked to free front endpaper. Some foxing on following free endpapers, half-title and title page, diminishing over the following pages. Very light sporadic foxing in margins of block. Medium foxing on back free endpapers. Bindings in overall good, interior in good+ to very good condition. g to vg. Item #45140
Price: $1,500.00