Septuaginta interpretum
By: summa cura edidit Joannes Ernestus Grabe
Publisher: E Theatro Sheldoniano, apud Richardum Smith
Published: 1707
Place of publication: Oxonii
Language: grc; lat
Translated from: heb
Subjects: Codex Alexandrinus (Biblical manuscript)
Other titles: Bible. Old Testament. Greek. Septuagint. 1707
Work titles: Bible Old Testament Greek Codex Alexandrinus 1707
Notes: Title from v.1.

The O.T. text of the Codex Alexandrinus edited by Johann Ernst Grabe, who died after publication of vols. 1 (1707)--and 2 (1709). Vol. 2 (1719) completed by Francis Lee and v. 3 (1720) by William Wigan.

Preface in v. 1 is a reprint of John Pearson's Praefatio paraenetica ad Vetus testamentum Graecum ex versione LXX interpretum. The Praefatio first appeared in [Hē palaia diathēkē kata tous Hebdomēkonta] = Vetus testamentum Graecum ex versione Septuaginta interpretum : juxta exemplar Vaticanum Romae editum -- Cantabrigiae : per Joannem Field, 1665, and defended old translations against the censures of Jerome.

Frontispiece (v. 1)--signed: "P. Berchet del." and "M. V dr. Gucht sculp."

Text in Greek, commentaries in Latin.

Text printed in double columns without page or column numbers.

Errata pages in v. 1 and 4 prepared by Humfrey Wanley.

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Table of contents: title: v. 1. Septuaginta interpretum : tomus I., continens Octateuchum quem ex antiquissimo ms. Codice Alexandrino accurate descriptum et ope aliorum exemplarium ac priscorum scriptorum, praesertim vero Hexaplaris editionis Origenianae : emendatum atque suppletum, additis saepe asteriscorum & obelorum signis.; title: v. 2. [Tēs palaias diathēkēs kata tous Hebdomēkonta, tom. beta] = Septuaginta interpretum, tomus secundus, continens Veteris testamenti libros historicos omnes, sive canonicos, sive apocryphos, ex antiquissimo ms. Codice Alexandrino accurate descriptos ...; title: v. 3. [Tēs palaias diathēkēs kata tous Hebdomēkonta, tom. gamma] = Septuaginta interpretrum, tomus tertius, continens Veteris testamenti libros propheticos omnes, sive canonicos, sive apocryphos, quas ex antiquissimo ms. Codice Alexandrino accurate descriptos ...; title: v. 4. Septuaginta interpretum, tomus ultimus, continens Psalmorum, Jobi, ac tres Salomonis libros, cum apocrypha ejusdem, nec non Siracidae Sapientia, quos ex antiquissimo ms. Codice Alexandrino accurate descriptos ...