Sales catalogues: Quaritch

Date:
October 1871
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/4
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogues: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    glotton, Heb. Chald. Syr. Sam. Ethiop. Arab. et Pers. cum omnium Grammaticis, 2 vols. in 1, portrait by Faithorne, 1b. 1669—together 8 vols. large fol. ruled with red ink , fine copy in old calf, £24. 1657-69 This valuable copy is of the original issue which is but very rarely met with in consequence of the destruction by Walton at the Restoration, of the sheet C of prole- gomena, which was offensive to Charles IJ. In the original passages, he states his sentiments and intentions with regard to the publication in a very different way from what appears afterwards, and thanks the most illustrious Lord Protector and his council for their assistance granted to his labours and the exemption of the paper from duty. In the reprint which was made after the Restoration, the Bishop enlarges piously on the dreadful affairs of recent times, and the wicked overthrow of lofty heads “that had shone as stars above the church,” and drops the illustrious Pr otec- tor entirely, except by a kind of innuendo drawn from his sense of shame ;—that is, in giving the names of his patrons, he mentions all “ preter eos quorum favore char- tam a vectigalibus immunem habuimus.”’ 1460 BIBLIA POLYGLOTTA WALTONI, et Casretx1 Lexicon Hzprta- GLorron, 8 vols. bound in 9, large folio , portraits and plates, fine copy, ruled throughout, in old calf, £24, 1657-69 __This copy contains the royal preface, but has the cancelled sheet C added at the end of the prolegomena. -1461 BIBLIA POLYGLOTTA WALTONT, 6 vols. folio, portrait and plates, beautiful copy ruled throughout, in a sumptuous binding of blue MoRoccO super-extra, Harleian gold-tooling, gilt edges, by Beprorp, £42. 1657 This has the royal preface. None of the above copies contains the dedication to Charles II. which was issued after the publication of the book. “ This Polyglot is of the utmost importance toa critic, not only on account of the extracts which it contains from a variety of important MSS., but particularly on account of the Oriental versions, from which he must collect various readings of the New Testament. Though several of the MSS. which are quoted in the Polyglot have since that time been more accurately collated, and no one would now have recourse to that edition for the reading of the Codex Alexandrinus or Cantabrigiensis; yet some of the MSS. which Usher had collected, have never since been examined. Mill and Wetstein have inserted those readings in their collections as they found them in the Polyglot. Now, as errors of the press are unavoidable, especially in a work like Wetstein’s, it is necessary to have a recourse to the Polyglot whenever a doubt arises in regard to the accuracy of a quotation by Millor Wetstein, in order to see whether these MSS. which were collated for the London Polyglot, have the readings in ques- tion or not.”—Bp. Marsh’s Michaelis. It is not generally known that Walion’s Polyglott Bible contains the best and most nearly complete collection of the various TarGtms. 1462 BIBLIA SACRA POLYGLOTTA, Textus Archetypos Versionesque precipuas ab Ecclesia antiquitts receptas necnon versiones recentiores complectentia ; accedunt Prolegomena in Textuum Archetyporum Ver- sionumque antiquarum Crisin literalem, auctore Samuele Les, large stout fol. mor. extra, gold borders, gilt edges, £6. Lond. Bagster, 1831 An excellent Polyglot edition of the Bible, in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, now scarce. All of them are printed in 12mo, size, so that the Hebrew, English, Greek and Latin occupy four quarters of each left hand page, and the others occupy the right hand. At the end of the volume are, Varie lectiones in versionem Septuaginta virorum, Novum Testamentum Grecum, Pentateuchum Hebreo-Samaritanum ; and the whole of the New Testament in Syriac. ; A new issue just now produced costs £8. 8s, although it is necessarily inferior to the original edition, being merely a reprint. 1463 POLYGLOTTEN-BIBEL: Die heilige Schrift alten und neuen Testa- ments, bearbeitet von STIER und Tuere, 4 vols. in 6, stout roy. 8vo. vellum gilt, £3. Bielefeld, 1854-55 The Old Testament is in four languages; the Hebrew original, the Greek of the Septuagint, the Latin of the Vulgate, and Luther’s German translation, 5 vols, The sixth eontains the New Testament in Greek, Latin, and German.