Biblia

Collection Data

Names
Alcalá, Alfonso de (Editor)
Alfonso, de Zamora, approximately 1474-approximately 1544 (Editor)
Coronel, Pablo, 1480-1534 (Editor)
Doukas, Demetrios (Editor)
Nebrija, Antonio de, 1444?-1522 (Editor)
López de Zúñiga, Diego, -1530 (Editor)
Núñez, Hernán, 1475?-1553 (Editor)
Vergara, Juan de (Editor)
Jiménez de Cisneros, Francisco, 1436?-1517 (Editor)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1514
Place: Alcalá de Henares
Publisher: Arnaldo Guillen de Brocar
Library locations
Rare Book Division
Shelf locator: *KB+ 1514 (Bible. Polyglot. 1514-17. [Biblia])
Genres
Bibles
Notes
Content: "The earliest of the great Polyglots [containing Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Chaldee text]; known as the Complutensian, the Spanish, or Ximenes' Polyglot."--Brit. and foreign Bible soc. Historical cat., 1412.
Content: [Vol. 1] has title: ... Uetus testmentũ multiplici lingua nũc primo impressum ... [v. 2-4] ... Secũda [-Quarta] pars Ueteris testamenti ... [v. 5] ... Uocabularium hebraicum atq[ue] chaldaicũ ... [v. 6] ... Nouum testamentum grece & latine ...
Content: Printed by order and at the expense of Cardinal Francisco Ximénez de Cisneros. Edited by Elio Antonio de Lebrija, Fernando Nuñez de Toledo y Guzmán, Juan de Vergara, Demetrios Doukas, Alfonso de Zamora, Alfonso de Alcala, Paublo Coronel and Diego Lopez de Zuñiga.--cf. British Museum catalogue and Brit. and foreign Bible soc.
Content: The New Testament (v. 6 of this set) has colophon dated Jan. 10, 1514; the appendix (v. 5 of this set) has colophon dated May 31, 1515; the last volume of the Old Testament (v. 4) has colophon dated July 10, 1517. The papal sanction, l. 8b of v. 1, is dated March 22, 1520, and there is reason to believe that the books were not released for circulation until about 1522.
Content: With the cardinal's arms printed in red on t.p. of v. 1-5, in black on t.p. of v. 6.
Content: With misprint "Fpiscopo" in first line of caption, l. 8b of v. 1.
Acquisition: 1884 (Astor)
Physical Description
Extent: 6 v.39 cm. (fol.)
Extent: 15 1/4 x approximately 22 inches in cradle [15 1/4vx 11 1/4 inches closed]
Type of Resource
Text
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 42773884
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b14367154
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 2b9906f0-c77f-013c-fc09-0242ac110005
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