May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 512
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(BIBLE. POLYGLOT. NEW TESTAMENT.) Novum testamentum. Ditika hadata. He kaine diatheke. Latin, Syriac (printed in unvocalized Hebrew type), and Greek text. xx, 812 pages. 4to, 241x187 mm, contemporary limp vellum, soiled, cover fore edges worn through, small hole in rear cover; dog-earing and marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, scattered marginal foxing, paper corrosion along fore edge of opening leaves, lower outer corner torn off front free endpaper. Early 20th-century Paris Oratorian stamps on title. Paris: (Étienne Prévosteau for) Jean Bienné, (31 October) 1588

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Scarce trilingual edition reprinted from the Antwerp Polyglot, with the Latin printed both in a separate column in regular word order, and as an interlinear translation of the Syriac, with the Latin words positioned over their Syriac equivalents. Darlow & Moule 1423 (1584 edition).