Concordantiae maiores Sacrae Bibliae
By: summis uigilijs iam denuo ultra omnes editiones castigatae & auctae per Franciscum Arolam.
Contributors: Arola, Franciscus, 16th cent.; Segovia, Juan de, 1393-1458.; Gryphius, Sebastianus, 1493-1556, printer.; Konrad, von Halberstadt, fl. 1342-1362.; Hugh, of Saint-Cher, Cardinal, ca. 1200-1263.; Gryphius Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Apud Seb. Gryphium
Published: 1551
Place of publication: Lugduni
Language: lat
Subjects: Bible -- Concordances, Latin -- Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Alter Concordantiarum Sacrae Bibliae tomus.
Notes: Baudrier, H.L.  Bib. lyonnaise, VIII, p. 249
Index Aureliensis, 109.005
Vol. 2 has title: Alter Concordantiarum Sacrae Bibliae tomus: qui est partium siue dictionum indeclinabilium.
Vol. [1], concordancing words with noun and verb roots, contains the Concordantiae Bibliorum of Konrad von Halberstadt, which begins: Cuilibet uolenti requirere concordantias in hoc uolumine, unum est primitus attendendum, videlicet ... Vol. 2, concordancing prepositions, conjunctions, adverbs, etc., is by Juan de Segovia. Cf. BLC (under Bible--Appendix--Concordances--Latin); Lex. für Theol. u. Kirche, VI, 464; Encycl. Britannica, 14th ed., VI, 261; Polain 1150.
Based on Hugo de Sancto Charo's Concordantiae Sancti Jacobi. Cf. Baudrier and New Catholic encycl., II, p. 537.
Gryphius issued concordances with the same title in 1529, 1535, 1540, and 1545. None names an author.
The volumes are unpaged. Signatures of v. 1: a-z⁸ A-V⁸ X¹⁰; v. 2: 2a-2l⁸ 2m⁴.
LC set, bound in 1 v., has title leaf of v. 1 mutilated: the printed portions of the t.p. have been clipped out and mounted on a new sheet of paper, with loss of the text (privilege, Gryphius' "Beneuolo lectori") on its verso.
Source: Exchange with E.K. Schreiber, Mar. 3, 1987.