Biblia Sacra Polyglotta


Book Description
First edition thus; folio (40.5 x 27.5 cm); parallel text in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish, with the Samaritan Pentateuch and Syriac NT, morocco gilt-lettered presentation plate to front pastedown, further MS presentation inscription tipped-in to front free endpaper, slight offsetting to margins and minor marginal staining to title and prelims, otherwise internally clean; contemporary purple morocco, covers with gilt fielded oval relief of floral urns within double gilt-roll borders, gilt spine in 6 compartments, all edges gilt, the spine slightly faded, minor mildew residue, very good or better, housed in the original morocco case, rubbed.
Dealer Notes
‘This polyglot, the most inclusive since the London Polyglot, contains the Old and New Testaments in eight languages; with the Samaritan Pentateuch and the Syriac New Testament added in an appendix’ (Darlow & Moule).
Samuel Lee (1783-1852) was Arabic Professor, and later Regius Professor of Hebrew, at Cambridge. He edited both the New and Old Testmanet in Syriac.
Samuel Lee (1783-1852) was Arabic Professor, and later Regius Professor of Hebrew, at Cambridge. He edited both the New and Old Testmanet in Syriac.
Author
LEE, Samuel (editor).
Date
1831.
Binding
contemporary purple morocco, covers with gilt fielded oval relief of floral urns within double gilt-roll borders, gilt spine in 6 compartments, all edges gilt
Publisher
Samuel Bagster,
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