Biblia sacra polyglotta
Subtitle: complectentia textus originales, Hebraicum, cum Pentateucho Samaritano, Chaldaicum, Græcum : versionumque antiquarum, Samaritanæ, Græcæ LXXII interp., Chaldaicæ, Syriacæ, Arabicæ, Æthiopicæ, Persicæ, Vulg. Lat., quicquid compari poterat : cum textuum & versionum orientalium translationibus Latinis : ex vetustissimis mss. undique conquisitis, optimísque exemplaribus impressis, summâ fide collatis : quæ 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
By: edidit Brianus VValtonus
Contributors: Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677; Lombart, Pierre, 1612-1682
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: Imprimebat Thomas Roycroft
Published: 1657
Place of publication: Londini
Language: lat; mul
Translated from: mul
Other titles: S.S. Biblia polyglotta.
Work titles: Bible Polyglot 1657
Notes: Texts in Vulgate Latin, Arabic, Aramaic (the Targum Onkelos), Ethiopic, Greek (the Septuagint), Hebrew, Persian, and Syriac (the Peshitta); editorial matter in Latin.

Collective t.p., illustrated t.p., and frontispiece bound at the beginning of vol. 6.

Added illustrated t.p. reads: S.S. Biblia polyglotta.

Vols. 1-5 contain the Biblical texts. The unnumbered 6th vol. contains Walton's preface, essays, plans, maps, and the prolegomena (all of which were bound at the beginning of Vol. 1 in the original edition [Wing B2797]), plus "Ad Biblia sacra polyglotta appendix," which has critical essays, appendices, variant readings, annotations, and indexes.

Each vol. has special t.p. Vol. 1 is dated 1653; vol. 2, 1655; vol. 3, 1656; vols. 4-5 and Appendix, 1657.

Engraved frontispiece portrait of Walton signed: Lombart sculpsit; engraved t.p. signed: W. Hollar fecit.

Vols. 1-2 appear on reel 1170, vols. 3-4 on reel 1171, and vols. 5-6 on reel 1172.

Imperfect: vol. 2, p. 216-17 missed in photographing. Bristol Reference Library no longer available as a microfilming source; best copy available for photographing.

Wing B2797 Variant a