Haec tibi pentadecas tetragonon respicit illud hospitium Petri [et] Pauli ter quinq[ue] dierum
Subtitle: Namq[ue] instrume[n]tum vetus hebdoas innuit: octo lex noua signatur, ter quinq[ue] receptat vtrunq[ue]..
Contributors: Nebrija, Antonio de, 1444?-1522; Núñez, Hernán, 1475?-1553; Vergara, Juan de, 1492-1557; Ducas, Demetrius; Alfonso, de Zamora, approximately 1474-approximately 1544; Jiménez de Cisneros, Francisco, 1436?-1517
Publisher: Arnaldo Guillelmo de Brocario
Published: 1514
Place of publication: Complutum, that is Alcalà de Henares]
Language: lat; heb; grc
Translated from: heb; arc; grc
Other titles: Haec tibi pentadecas tetragonon respicit illud hospitium Petri et Pauli ter quinque dierum
Work titles: Bible Polyglot Complutensian 1514-1517
Notes: Colophon in volume 4 reads: Complutensii Vniuersitate ... Industria & forertia honorablilis viri Arnaldi Guilielmi de Brocario artis impressorie magistri. Anno Domini millessimo q[ui]nge[n]tesimo decimo septimo. Me[n]sis iulii die decimo [1517].

Colophon on leaf 2M7 verso [end of the Book of Revelation] volume 5 reads: Co[m]plutensii Vniuersitate ... Industria & forertia honorablilis viri Arnaldi Guilielmi de Brocario artis impressorie magistri. Anno Domini millessimo quingentesimo decimo quarto. Mensis ianuarij die decimo [1514].

Colophon in volume 6 on leaf 2F4 recto reads: Co[m]plutensii Vniuersitate ... Industria & forertia honorablilis viri Arnaldi Guilielmi de Brocario artis impressorie magistri. Anno Domini millessimo quingentesimo decimo quinto. Mensis marcii die septima [1515].

According to the Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society, this is the first polyglot Bible. It was produced under the patronage and at the expense of Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, whose image is depicted in the intial in volume 6, verso of the title page.

Edited by a team of scholars headed by Diego López de Zuñiga; other editors included Elio Antonio de Lebrija [that is Nebrija], Fernando Nuñez de Toledo y Guzmán [that is Hernán Núñez], Juan de Vergara, Demetrios Doukas, Alfonso de Zamora, Alfonso de Alcala, and Pablo Coronel. See: Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

"Vetus Testamentu[m] multiplici lingua nu[n]c primo impressum. Et imprimis Pentateuchus Hebraico Greco atq[ue] Chaldaico idiomate. Adiu[n]cta vnicuiq[ue] sua Latina interpretatione"-- title page of volume 1.

Old Testament generally arranged as follows: Hebrew text in outside column (with Hebrew roots in the margin), Vulgate in the middle column and Septuagint in the inside column [with an interlinear Latin translation]; New Testament is printed in two columns, Greek on the left and Vulgate on the right.

Pagination: volume 1: [312] leaves; volume 2: [260] leaves; volume 3: [209] leaves; volume 4: [280] leaves; volume 5: [295] leaves; volume 6: [228] leaves.

Signatures: volume 1: [cross]⁸ ([cross]1 verso blank) a-2z⁶ [et]⁶ ??⁶ ²a²; volume 2: pi² a-2t⁶ 2v⁴ ²a²; volume 3:3a-3d⁶ 3e⁴ 3A-3B⁶ 3C⁴ 3D-3H⁶ 3I⁴ ²a-²i⁶ (²a3 missigned 3A3) ²k⁴ (²k4 blank) ²l-²o⁶ ²p⁸ A-E⁶ F⁴ ³a2 (-³a2); volume 4: a-2o⁶ 2p⁴ A-F⁶ G⁴ (G4 verso blank);volume 5: a⁴ A-Q⁶ [alpha]⁶ R-Z⁶ 2A-2L⁶ 2M⁸ 2a10 a⁶ b-f⁶ g⁴(-g4) (g3 verso blank); volume 6: pi² (-pi2) A-2E⁶ (2D3 missohned D3) 2F⁴ (2F4 verso blank) ²A-²D⁶ ³A-³B⁶ ³C⁴ (-³C4) a⁸ (a2 missigned A2) ²E².

Errata: volume 1: final two leaves which are signed ²a; volume 2: final two leaves which are signed ²a; volume 3: final leaf which is signed ³a; volume 4: final two leaves which are signed ²a.

Includes Latin indexes in volume 6, leaves a1-a8 and leaves ²E1-2.

Title pages of volumes 1-4 and 6 bear the coat of arms of Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros in red and black and in volume 5 in black only; woodcut tail piece; initials.

Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1412

Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 4593

Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 5082

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, I: pages 58-60

Purchase; before 1860; 08147.

Includes text in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldean, and Aramaic.
Table of contents: title: Volume 1: Genesis-Deuteronomy; title: volume 2: Joshua-I Paralipomenon (with Oratio Manasses); title: volume 3: I Esdras-Ecclesiasticus; title: volume 4: Isaiah-III Machabees; all four volumes in Hebrew, Vulgate, Septuagint (the first edition of the Septuagint to be printed), with an interlinear Latin translation, Chaldee Targum of Onkelos with a Latin translation; title: volume 5: New Testament: Greek and Vulgate, the first New Testament in Greek to be printed; title: volume 6: Alfonso de Zamora's Hebrew and Aramaic dictionary; On the interpretation of Greek and Hebrew; Aramaic names; Hebrew grammar; Latin index; Index of names written differently in Old and New Testaments than in Hebrew and Greek.