Biblia Sacra polyglotta, complectentia textus originales, Hebraicum
Subtitle: cum Pentateucho Samaritano, Chaldaicum, Græcum, versionumque antiquarum, Samaritanæ, Græcæ LXXII interp., Chaldaicæ, Syriacæ, Arabicæ, Æthiopicæ, Persicæ, Vulg. Lat. : quicquid comparari poterat, cum textuum & versionum Orientalium translationibus Latinis ... cum apparatu, appendicibus, tabulis, variis lectionibus, annotationibus, indicibus, &c. : opus totum in sex tomos tributum
By: edidit Brianus Waltonus ...
Publisher: Imprimebat Thomas Roycroft
Published: 1654
Place of publication: Londini [London]
Language: mul
Work titles: Bible Polyglot 1657
Notes: "The fourth and latest of the great Polyglots; known as the London, or Walton's Polyglot ..., this is the most accurate and best-equipped"--Darlow & Moule.

T.p. in red and black. Added engr. t.p. Vol. 6 has special t.p.: Ad Biblia Sacra polyglotta appendix. Londini : Imprimebat Thomas Roycroft, 1657 [i.e. 1658]--Darlow & Moule.

Vol. 1 completed in 1654--Cf. Darlow & Moule. Colophon at end of v. 2 dated 1655; v. 3, 1656; v. 4-5, 1657.

Errata: leaves ⁴2C2 (v. 1) and ¹¹K2 (v. 6). Cancel slip pasted on verso of ²M2 (v. 1). Ms. corrections. There are 2 issues: "republican" (whose preface mentions Cromwell) and "loyal" (whose preface does not), the latter actually issued in 1660. The 1st gathering in the "republican" copies is signed A-C², in the "loyal" copies, A-D² (D2 blank).

References: BLC, v. 28, p. 331 (675.l.1-6); Darlow & Moule 1446; Pettigrew, T.J. Bibliotheca Sussexiana, p. 50; Wing B2797.

Signatures: v. 1: A-C², ²A-O², ³A-K², ⁴A-Q² R⁴ S-2C², ⁵A-D² E-5S⁴ 5T² (5T2 blank). v. 2: [A]² B-D² E-5Y⁴, ²B-D⁴. v. 3: [A]² B-D² E-3M⁴, ²A-3C⁴, ³A-2E⁴ 2F², ⁴A-S⁴ T². v. 4: A-D² E⁴ F² G-N⁴ O-P², ²A-Q⁴, ³A² B-C⁴ D², ⁴A-B⁴ C², ⁵A-V⁴, A-D² E-3E⁴ (⁶3E4 blank). v. 5: [A]² B-D² E-6K⁴. v. 6: [pi]² A-S², ²A-O², ³A-R², ⁴A-V², ⁵A-B² C-2B⁴, ⁶A-2M², ⁷A-F², ⁸A-P², ⁹A-B² C-E⁴ F², ¹⁰A-D⁴ E², ¹¹A-I⁴ K² ([pi]1 blank). In v. 2, 5Y2 and 5Y3 signed A, A2.

Accompanied by: Castell, Edmund, 1606-1685. Lexicon heptaglotton.