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Lot n° 60

Biblia polyglotta.

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Biblia sacra, ebraice, chaldaice, graece, latine, germanice, saxonice, studio & labore Eliae Hutteri Germani. 2 (of 3) parts of the OT in 1 vol. Nbg, (Al. Pf. Dietrich) 1599. fol. With title border in woodcut. 4 fol. (le. w.), 287, 851 pp. Restoration. Prgt. Darlow-M. 1429. VD 16, B 2571 (only tle. 1 u. 2). Not in Adams. - "Known as Hutter's, or the Nuremberg Polyglot Bible. Edited by Elias Hutter (1553-1602 ?), Hebrew Professor at Leipzig, who produced the Hebrew Old Testament published at Hamburg in 1587, and translated the New Testament into Hebrew. This Hexaglot... appears to have been a failure, since the publication proceeded no further than the book of Ruth" (Darlow-M.). - Somewhat browned, endpapers renewed.