Tēs Kainēs Diathēkēs hapanta
Subtitle: Eu aggelion.  Kata Matthaion.  Kata Markon.  Kata Loukan.  Kata Ioannen.  Praxeis ton apostolon.  Nouum Iesv Christi D. N. Testamentum.  Ex bibliotheca regia
Contributors: Estienne, Henri, 1531-1598
Publisher: Ex officina Roberti Stephani typographi regii, regiis typis
Published: 1550
Place of publication: Lvtetiae
Language: grc
Number of pages: 272
Other titles: Nouum Iesv Christi D. N. Testamentum; Novum Iesu Christi D. N. Testamentum
Work titles: Bible. New Testament. Greek. 1550
Notes: The third and most important of R. Stephanus' editions, known as the Editio Regia. From this the "Textus Receptus," found in ordinary Greek Testaments, is substantially derived.

Bentley alludes to Stephanus as the "Protestant Pope," and says that his text could not have claimed greater authority if an apostle had been the compositor.

This edition was attacked by the Sorbonne and Estienne had difficulty getting it published; after publication it continued to cause trouble until after his removal from Paris later in the year.

In this third recension the text is more closely conformed to that of Erasmus. Reuss states that a collation with Stephanus' first edition (1546) reveals the fact that in 38 passages the editor here rejected the Complutensian reading in favor of that of Erasmus, whereas he adopted the converse course in only two. In only nine cases is a reading found here which does not occur in any earlier edition. According to Scrivener's collation, Stephanus' first edition differs from this third edition in 797 places, "of which 372 only are real various readings."

The most interesting feature of this Testament is the critical apparatus, printed in the inner margin of the text, which gives various readings and additions from mss. collated by H. Stephanus, and also from the Complutensian. These are distinguished by Greek numerals. The outer margin contains references, and the ordinary chapter-numbers and division-letters, A, B, etc. The text printed in the large "Royal" type.

Each of the gospels is preceded by a life of the evangelists by Sophronius, and (in the case of Mark, Luke and John) another life by Dorotheus; and also by a prooimion by Theophylact. Before Acts are placed Apodēmia Paulou...and Euthaliou diakovov peri tōn chronōn... A general preface to the Pauline epistles by St. Chrysostom follows the title to the second part; and a hypothesis, to which is generally added another short preface by Theodoret, precedes each epistle. A table of kephalaia stands before each book, and the subjects of these appear in the headlines throughout the gospels.

Epistles and apocalypse have separate title: Poulou tow arostolou epistolai. Pros Romaiois, Pros Korinthious, Pros Galatas, Pros Ephesious, Pros Philippesious, Pros Kolassaeis, Pros Thessalonikeis B [2], Pros Timotheon B [2] Pros Ebraious. Ai Katholikai epistolai. Iakobou, Petrou B [2], Ioannou B [2], Iouda.  Agokalupsis ioannou tou theologou.  Ex Bibliotheca Regia.

Eight preliminary leaves are wrongly placed between pages 128 and 129.

Signatures: * ** a-q⁸ r⁶ A-M⁸ N⁶.

Printer's device on the title page (snake on vine) and verso of final leaf (olive tree).

Colophon: Excvdebat Robertvs Stephanvs typographvs regivs Lvtatiae Parisiorvm, anno M. D. L. XVII. cal. IVL.

Foliated and grotesque Greek initials in two sizes, with matching head-pieces (that on leaf H⁷r with a cherubic head, may indicate a first state).

Preliminary verse by Henri Estienne.

Reprinted in 1601 by Wechel.

Burke Library copy: Ownership inscription of Charles Short, 1860.

Burke Library copy: Presentation bookplate to the library from David H. McAlpin, 1898.

Burke Library copy: Binding: gold-tooled red morocco over pasteboard; all edges gilt.

Schreiber.  The Estiennes, p. 105

Renouard. Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne, no. 1, p. 75

Reuss, V, 8

B.F.B.S., 4622

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, B-1661