Giannozzo Manetti's New Testament
Subtitle: translation theory and practice in fifteenth-century Italy
By: by Annet den Haan
Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history -- volume 257; Brill's texts and sources in intellectual history -- volume 19; Brill's studies in intellectual history -- v. 19.; Brill's studies in intellectual history -- v. 257.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 547
ISBN-13: 9789004323742; 9789004324374
Subjects: Translating; History; Versions; Bible
Description: In 'Giannozzo Manetti's New Testament' Annet den Haan analyses the Latin translation of the Greek New Testament made by the fifteenth-century humanist Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459). The book includes the first edition of Manetti's text. Manetti's translation was the first since Jerome's Vulgate, and it predates Erasmus' 'Novum Instrumentum' by half a century. Written at the Vatican court in the 1450s, it is a unique example of humanist philology applied to the sacred text in the pre-Reformation era. Den Haan argues that Manetti's translation was influenced by Valla's 'Annotationes', and compares Manetti's translation method with his treatise on correct translation, 'Apologeticus' (1458).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-535) and index.

English and Latin.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Giannozzo Manetti's New Testament. Manetti's life and works ; Writing process ; Textual criticism ; Translation theory from antiquity to the Renaissance ; Apologeticus ; Translation method; title: Part II. Text. Note on the text ; [Manetti's New Testament] ; Appendix: Mannetti's library.