Lot 231
Bible; Polyglot
Biblia Hebraica
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
eorundem Latina interpretatio Xantis Pagnini Lucensis, recenter Benedicti Ariae Montani Hispal. et quorundam aliorum collato studio, ad Hebraicam dictionem diligentissime expensa. Accesserunt et huic editioni libri Graece scripti, qui vocantur Apocryphi; cum interlineari interpretaione Latine ex Bibliis Complutensibus petita. [Part 2:] Novum Testamentum Graecum, cum vulgata interpretation Latina Graeci ... atque alia Ben. Ariae Montai Hispalensis opera e verbo reddita.
Antwerp: ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1584. 2 parts in 1 volume, folio (34.5 x 21cm), contemporary mottled calf, relaid on modern boards with endpapers renewed, Biblia Hebraica (OT) bound right to left, Novum Testamentum Graecum (NT) bound left to right, [20] 183 [1] 283 [1] 84 203, [8] 186 pp., woodcut Plantin device to both title-pages, covers scored and pitted, variable damp-staining to first 100 pages of OT, NT title-page creased, frayed and marked [Adams B972; Darlowe & Moule 4645 (NT) & 5106 (OT)]
Footnote
Note: A complete polyglot Bible in the original languages, printed by the Plantin press from the famous Antwerp Polyglot of 1569-72, and containing the Old Testament in Hebrew, and the New Testament and Apocrypha in Greek, all with interlinear translations in Latin.
Provenance: Early gift inscription to New Testament title, 'A Robertus Roche est huius libri ... ex dono M. Joannis Bemistons'.