[Biblia polyglotta]

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Title: [Biblia polyglotta]
Alternative Title: Bible. Polyglot. 1514-17. In Academia complutensi.
Creator: Jiménez de Cisneros, Francisco, 1436?-1517 and López de Zuñiga, Diego, 16th century
Published / Created: 1514-17.
Publication Place: [Alcalá de Henares,
Publisher: Industria Arnaldi Guillelmi de Brocario in Academia complutensi]
Description: For full description of this work, see British and foreign Bible Society, Historical ctalogue, v. 2, no. 1412.
Initials; tail-pieces.
The first polyglot Bible, edited by eminent scholars, headed by Diego López de Zuñiga, and printed, in an edition of 600 copies, at the expense of Cardinal Ximénez.
Titles, with Cardinal Ximénez' coat of arms, are within woodcut borders.
Vol. 1 (with title: Vetus Testamentu[m] multiplici lingua nu[n]c primo impressum) and v. 2-4 (Secu[n]da[quarta] pars Veteris Testamenti) have colophon (v. 4) dated, 10 July 1517.
Vol. 1 has Hebrew, Greek and Latin in parallel columns, with Chaldaic text at foot of page.
Extent: 6 v. 38 cm.
Extent of Digitization: Partially digitized
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Hebrew
Latin

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