Vetus Testamentum Graecum
Subtitle: cum variis lectionibus
By: Edidit Robertus Holmes ...
Publisher: E typographeo Clarendoniano
Published: 1798
Place of publication: Oxonii
Language: gre; lat
Subjects: Textual Criticism; Bible
Work titles: Bible Old Testament Greek Septuagint 1798
Notes: After Holmes' death, the work was continued by James Parsons and completed in 1827.--cf. Dictionary of National Biography.

Greek text at top of page; notes in double columns below.

The text adopted was the Sixtine; a list at end of v. 5 enumerates 311 Greek mss. collated.

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Table of contents: title: v. 1, Pentateuch (1798); v. 2, Joshua; title: 2 Chronicles (1818); v. 3, Ezra; title: Song of Solomon (1823); v. 4, Isaiah; title: Malachi (1827); v. 5, 1 Esdras; title: 3 Maccabees (1827).; title: The Greek text is printed as a single column, not divided into verses, with verse numbers in the margin, and with the apparatus criticus (in 2 columns) printed below; there are Latin prefaces and appendices to separate books and groups of books.; title: Vol. 1 has lists of sponsors and subscribers, and of assistants, at the beginning; v. 2 has at the beginning an additional list of subscribers.