Biblia sacra polyglotta, complectentia textus originales, Hebraicum, cum Pentateucho Samaritano, Chaldaicum, Graecum. Versionumque antiquarum, Samaritanae, Graecae LXXII interp. Chaldaicae, Syriacae, Arabicae, Aethiopicae, Persicae, Vulg. Lat. Quicquid comparari poterat. Cum textuum, & versionum orientalium translationibus Latinis. Ex vetustissimis MSS. undique conquisitis, optimísque exemplaribus impressis, summâ fide collatis. Quae 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. Edidit Brianus VValtonus, S.T.D.
Brian Walton (1600 - 1661)
Category
Books
Date
1657
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3048605
Summary
Bibliographic description
6 v. : ill., maps, plans, port. ; fol. Running number: 2741. With the pre-Restoration ('Republican') preface. Lacks the dedication to Charles II. In vol. 1 on p. 48 (sig. M2v) of preliminaries ("Explicatio idiotismorum seu proprietatum linguae Hebraicae & Graecae quae saepius in Scripturis occurrunt") there is a cancel slip pasted over the original text in the second column, which omits the words "vel summorum Pontificum". Cancel slip not present in vol. 1, p. 100 (sig. Bb2v) -- cf. Darlow & Moule 1446. Each vol. ruled in red throughout. Main title page in vol. 1 torn at foot, small piece missing. Provenance: manuscript former shelfmark on front or rear pastedown in each vol.: A.4.1-6. Binding: seventeenth-century gold-panelled calf; double gilt fillet border and double gilt fillet panel with small cornerpiece stamps, mitred together at the corners with double gilt fillets; blind roll pattern on board edges; spines with gilt fillets, gold-tooled title label 'Biblia Polyglotta Waltoni' and gold-tooled vol. number label. Blue stained edges.
Makers and roles
Brian Walton (1600 - 1661), editor Edward Pococke (1604-1691), editor Benito Arias Montano (1527-1598), editor Sante Pagnini (b.1470), editor Wenceslaus Hollar (Prague 1607 - London 1677), engraver (printmaker) Pierre Lombard (Paris 1612 – Paris 1682), engraver (printmaker) John Webb (1611 - 1672), artist