[Biblia polyglotta]

Published/Created:

[Alcalá de Henares,
Industria Arnaldi Guillelmi de Brocario in Academia complutensi]
1514-17.

Physical Description:

6 v. 38 cm.

Notes:

Titles, with Cardinal Ximénez' coat of arms, are within woodcut borders.
Initials; tail-pieces.
Vol. 1 has Hebrew, Greek and Latin in parallel columns, with Chaldaic text at foot of page.
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.
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.
For full description of this work, see British and foreign Bible Society, Historical ctalogue, v. 2, no. 1412.

Variant Titles:

Bible. Polyglot. 1514-17. In Academia complutensi.

Associated Names:

Jiménez de Cisneros, Francisco, 1436?-1517 [Printer]
López de Zuñiga, Diego, 16th century [Creator]

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Hebrew
Latin

Genre:

Bibles
Devotional literature
Marginalia

Format:

Text

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Call Number:

MLa191 +514

Orbis Record:

1304708

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

12517070

Volume/Enumeration:

Vol. 1

Extent of digitization:

Partial work digitized.

OID:

12511979

PID:

digcoll:4014169