the Lord's Supper, by T. W. (Thomas a concilio secretioro primò concessum, posWilcocks.) Lond. 1588. 8vo. tea a serenissimo D. PROTECTORE ejusque Confession of Faith, with a Confutation consilio, operis promovendi causa, benignè of superstitious Errours contrarie confirmatum et continuatum erat, quibus, thereunto, translated out of French by &c. In the loyal copies the clause is alRob. Fyll. Lond. 1589.8vo. Inglis, 88, 78. tered, and the words 'Sereniss. PRINCEPS Paraphrastical Explanation of 14 holie D. CAR. LUDOV. pr. PALATIN,' are found. Psalms, englished by Ant. Gilbie. In some copies are found a dedication to Lond. 1590. 24mo. pp. 77, and a table. King Charles II. (reprinted 1811, folio) and Two Epistles, translated by R. Vaux. An advertisement to the Subscribers, and Lond. 1593. 8vo. others, unto whom any copies of the first Maister Beza's Hovshold Prayers, for volume of the Bible shall be delivered,' the Consolation and Perfection of a [dated Sept. 4, 1654, on a 4to. leaf,] which Christian Life. Lond. 1607.18mo. black latter has been reprinted by Todd, in bis letter, within borders. life of Walton, p. 68, and by Dr. Dibdin in his Introduction to the Greek and Latin Bhagvat-Geeta. Classics, pp. 22-3. Charles. See WILKINS, Bhascara Acharia. See TAYLOR, John. In the Apparatus Criticus is a treatise entitled Explicatio Idiotismorum, sen Proprietatum Linguæ Hebraicæ et Græcæ quæ sæpius in Scripturis occurrant,' in BIANCHA, John. Dissertation on which the author asks, in what manner the the Case of Catherina Vizzani, a sense of scripture is to be determined. young woman born in Rome, who Over the fourth and fifth answers (in most copies) a paper, containing other fourth for eight years passed in the Habit and fifth answers, is pasted. of Man, was killed for an Amour The Polyglott, 6 vols. Duke of Grafton, with a young Lady, &c. Lond. 1651. 2, 381. 138. Copies with Castell's Lexicon. Bp. Randolph, 382, 437. 383, 387. 17s. Roscoe,553, with the dedication to King Charles II. 411. Gosset, 502, 45l. Willet, 284, 12mo. A translation from the Italian. Collection. BIBLIA Sacra Polyglotta, complec-537. 118. Edwards, 807, morocco, 617. tentia Textus originales, Hebræum red lines and bound in morocco by Roger Heath, 421, with the dedication, ruled with cum Pentateucho Samaritano, Chal- Payne, 737. 10s. daicum, Græcum, Versionemque an- LARGE PAPER, 12 copies printed, all with tiquarum Samaritanæ, Græcæ, LXX. the Royal Library, British Museum, St. the royal preface. Copies of which are in Interp. Chaldaicæ, Syriaca, Arabi- Paul's, St. John's, Camb. Shrewsbury School cæ, Ethiopica, Persica, Vulg. Lat. Library, Lambeth, and in Lord Spencer's quicquid comparari poterat. Cum To complete, says Mr. Horne, the LonTextuum et Versiorum Orientalium don Polyglott, the following publications Translationibus Latinis. Cum Ap- should be added. 1. Paraphrasis Chaldaica paratu, Appendicibus, Tabulis, va- corum, Auctore Rabbi Josepho, cum Verin Librum priorem et posteriorem Chroniriis Lectionibus, Annotationibus, siona Latina a Davide Wilkins. Amst. Indicibus, etc. Edidit Brianus Wal- 1715, 4to. 2. Dr. Castell's Lexicon Heptaton, S.T.D. Lond. 1657. folio, 6 vols. with portrait by Lombart. glotton. The purchaser should also procure Dr. John Owen's Considerations on the Polyglott, 1658. 18mo. Bishop Walton's re[This should be accompanied by Castelli ply, entitled 'The Considerator Considered,' Lexicon Heptaglotton, folio, generally &c.1659. 18mo. and a most important work, bound in 2 vols.] The 8 vols. 30%. and up- Walton's Introductio ad Lectionem Lingua wards. rum Orientalium, &c. Lond. 1654. 18mo. 'All the preceding Polyglots were eclip-Of the latter work one hundred copies were sed in use and excellence, if not in splen- reprinted 1815, in folio, of which 97 were dour and size, by that which is called the destroyed by fire in March 1822. Of the English and London Polyglot.'-Carpzovius. three copies saved one was presented by The last leaf but one of the preface is Mr. Bagster to the British Museum, one to cancelled in many copies, in which mention the Rev. H. J. Todd, and the other remainis made of the Protector in these words: ed in the publisher's possession. [The pro 'Primo autem commemorandi quorum legomena has been edited, with variorum favore chartam a vectigalibus immunem notes, by Archd. Wrangham, 2 vols. 8vo. habuimus, quod quinque adhinc annis (1652) Cantab. 1828. 9s. LARGE PAPER, 18s.] Oxon. This is the first edition of the Hebrew For further information respecting this accurante Nath. Forster. valuable Polyglott, consult Horne's Crit. 1750. 4to. 31. 3s. Introd. to the Scriptures, ii. appendix, 28-30. Todd's Memoirs of Bishop Walton. Clarke's Bibliogr. Dictionary, i. 248 Bible, except that in the Polyglot, printed -70. Butler's Hora Bibl. i. 138-49. Dr. in England. It has, however, been highly Dibdin's Introduction to the Classics. censured by Masch, though Dr. Adam 1827, vol. i. pp. 20–35. Clarke pronounces it to be the most ele In 1797, the Rev. Josiah Pratt issued 'Agant and correct of the Anti-Masoretic Prospectus, with Specimens of a New Po- Bibles.' LARGE PAPER, in 2 vols. 51. 5s. lyglott Bible, in Quarto,' and in 1799, The Old Testament, English another Prospectus, with Specimens of an and Hebrew, with Remarks critical octavo Polyglott Bible; but for want of and grammatical on the Hebrew, encouragement the design has not been carried into execution. A similar fate has and Corrections of the English, by attended The Plan and Specimen of Bib- Anselm Bayly, LL.D. Lond. 1774. lia Polyglotta Britannica, published and circulated by the Rev. Adam Clarke, LL.D. royal 8vo. 4 vols. 37. 10s. in 1810, in folio, reprinted in the Classical Journal, iv. 493-7. An useful edition of the Masoretic Hebrew text for those desirous of learning Hebrew. The Hebrew is printed in long Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, Tex-lines on the left hand page; and the autho tus Archetypos, Versionesque præ-rised English version on the right hand cipuas ab Ecclesia antiquitùs recep-cal notes, which are few, are placed under tas complectentia. Lond. 1817-28. the English text. 4to. 51. 5s. 8vo. 4 vols. 4l. 9s. page, divided into two columns. The criti Vetus Testamentum HebraiThis Polyglot, published by Mr. Bagster, comprises the original Hebrew text of the cum, cum variis Lectionibus, edidit Old Testament, the Samaritan Pentateuch, Benj. Kennicott. Oxonii, 1776-80. the Septuagint Greek Version of the Old folio, 2 vols. 77. 17s. 6d. Testament, the Vulgate Latin, and the au- This edition of the Hebrew Bible is, acthorised English version of the entire Bible, the original Greek text of the New cording to the learned Dr. Henry Owen, Ia work which contains, with all its imTestament, and the venerable Peschito or puted defects, a vast treasure of Hebrew old Syriac Version of it. A good account learning; which, judiciously applied, will of the Plan of it may be seen in Todd's Me- contribute more to rectify and restore the moirs of Bishop Walton, i. 365-9. Hebrew text than all the methods hitherto Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, Gallice, practised. It has also been pronounced by Italice, Hispanice, et Germanice, one of the most wary of German critics to Versiones præcipuas ab Ecclesiis be a first rate and even unique ornament of a theological collection. Sir M. M. Christianis hodie receptas, aut vulgo Sykes, pt. i. 471, morocco, 81. 8s. Gossett, approbatas, complectentia. Lond. 4to Of this edition no perfect copy exists; the whole were destroyed by fire in March, 1822, at Mr. Bagster's, excepting 23 copies of the New Testament. Biblia Sacra Polyglotta. Lond. 1828. folio, 81. 8s. 500, russia, 91. 19s. 6d. For a further account of this splendid work see Bishop 105-8. Monthly Review, vol. Îv. 92-100, Marsh's Divinity Lectures, part ii. pp. Ixiv. 173-82, 321-8, and lxv. 121-31. To Dr. Kennicott's Hebrew Bible, M. de Rossi published an important supplement in 4 vols. 4to. printed at Parma, 1784-7, entitled, Variæ Lectiones Veteris Testamenti.-See This work bears the title of 'Bagster's London Polyglott Bible,' and presents 8 Biblia Hebraica, or the Hebrew Languages at each opening of the volume. It comprises the Samaritan Pentateuch, Scriptures of the old Testament, the Septuagint Greek version of the Old without Points, after the Text of Testament, the Vulgate Latin, Diodati's Kennicott, with various Readings, Italian, Scio's Spanish, Ostervald's French, and English Notes, by B. Booth sion of the English Bible, the original royd, D.D. Pontefract, 1810-16. Greek text of the New Testament, and also 4to. 2 vols. 37. 13s. 6d. the venerable Peshito, or old Syriac version. Luther's German, and the authorised ver This edition, according to Mr. Horne, 'is peculiarly interesting to the Hebrew Biblia Hebraica (sine punctis) scholar and critic, as it contains, in a con densed form, the substance of the most which professes to follow accurately the valuable and expensive works. The type Roman edition of 1586, has been severely is very clear, and the poetical parts of the handled by Walton, Bos, Masch, and Harles. Hebrew Scriptures are printed in hemis- According to Mr. Horne, the editors have tichs, according to the arrangement pro- altered and interpolated the text in several posed by Bp. Lowth, and adopted by Abp. places, in order to bring it nearer to the Newcome.' There are copies on Large Hebrew text, and the modern versions. Paper in royal quarto. Drury, 557, 158. Heath, 427, 28s. LARGE Biblia Hebraica, ad Editionem PAPER. MacCarthy, 47 fr. Reprinted, CamVanderhooght, à J. S. C. F. Frey. bridge, 1653, 8vo. Lond. 1812. 8vo. 2 vols. 27. 2s. Vetus Testamentum Græcum, This edition is in no estimation, and is juxta Exemplar Vaticanum. Cansaid to be very incorrect. It is entirely tab. 1665. 12mo. superseded by D'Allemand's edition of Van This Cambridge edition was twice printed, der Hooght. 8vo. London, Duncan, 1823, first by John Field in 1665, and then by frequently reprinted, (Bohn, 1852), 10s. 6d. John Hayes in 1684, with the original date Biblia Hebraica, Versibus, Ca- of 1665. Prefixed is a learned preface of pitibus, et Sectionibus interstincta. 19 pages, written by the celebrated Bishop Pearson. Drury, 444, with the Greek Lond. 1822 and 1826. 12mo. 17. 1s. Testament, Apocrypha, and Liturgy. 19s. Another edition was printed without the Vetus Testamentum Græce, points, 17. 1s. Both are on the basis of Vanderhooght's, and owe their character ex antiquiss. Codice MS. Alexanfor accuracy to the talent and assiduity of drino descriptum, Cura et Studio Messrs. H. Jacob and J. D'Allemand. The Joan. Ernesti Grabe. Oxonii. various readings of the Hebrew and Sama-1707-19. folio, 4 tom. in 2 vols. ritan Pentateuch are given, together with the Masoretic notes, termed Keri and Ketib. 1. 11s 6d. Bible (The) in the Arabic Language. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1811. 4to. 18s. 'Editio omnium editionum splendidissima, emaculatissima, commendatissima ob Typorum Elegantiam,' &c. Reimannus. LARGE PAPER. 31. 3s. An edition in 8vo. 4 vols. in 8. 17. 11s. 6d. Vetus Testamentum Græcum, cum variis Lectionibus, edente Rob. Holmes, et Jac. Parsons. Oxon. This edition was superintended by the 1798-1827, folio, 5 vols. late Arabic professor, the Rev. J. D. Car- A truly valuable and splendid edition of lyle. Twelve copies were printed in large the Septuagint version. Vol. i. consisting folio, for presents; one of these is deposited of 3 parts, was published 1798, 1801, 1804. in the British Museum. Adam Clarke, Vol. ii. comprising all the historical books 187. 18s. Another elegant edition, New- from Joshua to the second book of Chronicastle-upon-Tyne, 1816, 4to. cles inclusively; the several fasciculi of Biblia Vetus Testamentum Syriace, which were published in the following edidit Samuel Lee, A.M. Lond. order, viz.: Joshua in 1810; Judges and Ruth in 1812; 1 Kings in 1813; and the 1823. 4to. five remaining books in the four succeedThis edition was printed under the pa- ing years. The third and fourth volumes, tronage of the Church Missionary Society, containing the book of Job to the Prophet and at the expense of the British and Fo-Jeremiah, were published 1819-25; and reign Bible Society. Three MSS. were the remaining, or fifth volume, which concollated for this edition, viz. one brought tains the Apocryphal books, between the by the Rev. Dr. Buchanan from Travan- years 1825 and 1827. For critiques on this core, in the East Indies; another belong- magnificent undertaking see Bishop Marsh's ing to the Rev. Dr. Adam Clarke; and the twelfth Lecture; Eclectic Review, ii. part Syriac Pentateuch, in the Library of New i. 85-90, 214-21, 267-74, 337-48; ClassiCollege, Oxford. cal Journal, ix. 475 -9, xix. 367-72; Vetus Testamentum Græcum, Horne's Introduction to the Scriptures, ii. ex Versione LXX. Interpretum. In appendix, 37—8. S. Biblia Græca Scholia, &c. Novi Vetus Testamentum Græcum, Testamenti Libri omnes Græce. juxta Exemplar Vaticanum, ex EdiLond. 1653. 4to. 3 vols. in 1. 10s. 6d. tione Lamb. Bos. Oxon. 1805. 8vo. This edition, printed by Roger Daniel, 5 vols. An elegant, accurate, and commodious authorised English version on the opposite cdition, printed in columns. page, 17. 16s. Vetus Testamentum e Codice Vetus Testamentum juxta ExMS. Alexandrino. qui Londini in emplar Vaticanum. Glasguæ, 1822. Bibliotheca Musei Britannici asser- 18mo. 3 vols. 18s. and Lond. 1 vol. vatur, Typis ad similitudinem ipsius 12mo. 1827. 18s. Codicis Scripturæ fideliter descrip- This very neat edition was printed at the tum, Cura et Labore Henrici Her-university press, at Glasgow. Biblia Latina.-Sacræ Biblia To veii Baber, A.M. Lond. 1816-28. mus. Lond. Excudebat Thomas imperial folio, 4 vols This edition exhibits a faithful fac-simile Bartholetus. 1535. 4to. of the celebrated Alexandrian manuscript, The first Latin Bible printed in England. the earliest existing of the Scriptures; it Copies are in the British Museum and was printed at the public expense, under Bodleian libraries. the control of the Trustees of the British [It is not the whole of the Bible; for Museum. The three first volumes com- contents, see Ames, by Dibdin, vol. iii. p. prise the entire text of the septuagint; and 291.] the fourth contains the notes and the pro- - Testamenti Veteris Biblia Salegomena. On PAPER, 250 copies were printed, and cra, Latini recens ex Hebræo facti, on VELLUM ten copies, and which are thus brevibusque Scholiis illustrati ab disposed: The library of King George III. Imm. Tremellio et Franc. Junio: The Imperial library at Vienna. The Bib liothèque du Roi at Paris. The Abp. of accesserunt Libri Apocryphi, Latini Canterbury. The Duke of Devonshire. redditi et Notis quibusdam aucti, a This copy is five inches taller than any of Fr. Junio. Lond. 1580. 8vo. 10s. 6d. the others. Earl Spencer. John Dent, First London edition of this version Esq. Sir M. M. Sykes, Bart. Archdeacon was made under the direction of the Usher. Rev. H. H. Baber. The publication Elector Palatine, Frederick III. Reprinted price of the work complete upon VELLUM, with Beza's Testament, 1581, 8vo. 1585. is 184 guineas, and on paper, 36l. 15s. 8vo. 1593, folio, 12s. 1640, with an enThe New Testament, which completes graved title page, by Marshall, 12mo. 5s. this edition of the Scriptures, was published 1650, 12mo. 1661, 8vo. 1680, 12mo. by Woide, vide Test. Nov. Gr. Woide. 1786. Biblia Sacra ex Sebastiani Castel Vetus Testamentum Græcum, lionis Interpretatione ejusque possecundum Exemplar Vaticanum Accedunt variæ Lectiones e Codice 12mo. 4 vols. 15s. trema Recognitione. Lond. 1724. Alexandrino, nec non Introductio J. B. Carpzovii. Oxon. 1817. Svo. 6 vols. 17. 78. This edition of Castalio's Bible is printed without the notes usually accompanying the work. This version was attacked both by Catholics and Protestants. Castalio published a defence of himself and his work in 1562, 12mo. A handsomely printed and accurate edition. The introduction is extracted from the second and third chapters of Carpzovius' Critica Sacra. Part iii. LARGE PAPER, 41. 4s. Drury, 446, russia, 81. 8s. Williams, 186, with Griesbach's Testament, morocco, 12mo. 18s. 161. 5s. 6d. Bos. Biblia Sacra Vulgata. Lond. 1826. Bagster's esteemed edition. Vetus Testamentum Græcum. Annotationes in Vetus TestaLond. 1819. 8vo. mentum, et in Epistolam ad EpheAn elegantly executed volume, correctly printed after the editions of Holmes and sios, incerto Autore: e Bibliotheca Johannis Archiep. Eboracensis in -Vetus ac Novum Testamentum Lucem erutæ. Cantab. 1653. 8vo. Græcum, cum variis Lectionibus A copy is in the British Museum. Millii et Griesbachii. Lond. 1826. Disquisitiones critica de variis per diversa Loca et Tempora BiblioCopies of this edition, published by Mr. rum Editionibus. Lond. 1684. 4to. Bagster, have also been printed with the 5s. 12mo. 17. 6s. xc. (then should follow a map, headed The descripcion of the londe of promes, BIBLE (Holy)-English versions. (WYCLIFFE). Holy Bible, con- called Palestina, Canaan, or the holy londe'); taining the Old and New Testaments, The second parte of the Olde Testament, with the Apocryphal Books, in the Josua, &c. to Hester, fol. ii-cxx. Job, &c. earliest English versions, made from to Salomon's balettes,' fol. i-lii. ‘All the Prophetes in Englishe,' fol. ii-cii. Apothe Latin vulgate, by John Wycliffe cripha, fol. ii.-Ixxxiii. falsely numbered and his followers (with a glossary), lxxxi. Then follows a blank leaf. The edited by the Rev. Josiah Forshall Newe Testamente,' fol. ii--cxiii, on the reverse of the last is 'Prynted in the years and Sir Frederick Madden. 4 vols. of oure Lorde M.D.XXXV. and fynished the royal 4to. 1850. Oxford University fourth daye of October.' A full page contains 57 lines.-The dedication, prologue, and contents of Genesis are printed in a different type; there are separate title pages to the five portions formed of the woodcuts which decorate the book, ex Press. 51. 15s. 6d. Particularly valuable as a specimen of the English language in the fourteenth century. For an account of this version, the varia (COVERDALE). BIBLIA. The clusive of the general title. Bible, that is, the holy Scripture of the tions in the Dedication, &c., see Lea WilOlde and New Testament, faithfully son's List of his Collection of Bibles, &e. 4to. & truly translated out of Douche privately printed, 1845. No. 1. Dr. Cotton's and Latyn in to Englishe. 1535. folio. List of Editions of the Bible, 8vo. Oxford, Black letter, printed in double columns, Herbert, iii. 1544-5. Bibl. Harleiana, i. no. 1852, pp. 8, and 274. Ames' Typ. Antiq. by in a foreign secretary-gothic type, with 155. Bibl. Spencer. i. 78-81. wood-cuts, by Hans Sebald Beham. This come's Histor. View, 29-33. Lewis' HisAbp. Newfirst Protestant translation of the whole Bible is considered as the joint production tory of the English Translations of the Bible, 91-104. Horne's Introduction to of Tyndal and Coverdale. [It is not satis- the Scriptures. Anderson's Annals of the factorily settled where this volume was English Bible, 2 vols. 8vo. 1845. Preface printed; some say, by Froschover, at Zurich; to Bishop Wilson's edit. of the Bible, 1785. others by Egenholf, at Frankfort; while Bagster's Reprint of the volume, &c. &c. others suggest Cologne or Lubec. There Mr. Bagster, in 1838, issued a reprint is no perfect copy yet (1857) known to (in the Roman letter) of this edition, exist. Copies, nearly perfect, are in the Earl of Leicester's library (no map); Earl 4to., copies on LARGE PAPER in folio. Mr. Spencer's, with the map, but no title; Earl Eyton's copy, most superbly bound in moof Jersey's (map), title faulty; Bodleian rocco, with clasps, sold, Pickering, 231, (no map); Trin. Coll., Dublin' (no map); March, 1854, 317. 10s. British Museum (no map), the title faulty. BIBLIA, the Another, in the Grenville Coll., of which Byble: that is the holy Scrypture of the title, 4 leaves, and also the map, are in the Olde and New Testament, faythfac-simile by Harris. Mr. Dunn Gar (COVERDALE). diner's copy, formerly Lea Wilson's, with fully translated in to Englyshe, 1536. the original map, but the title and first leaf folio. in fac-simile by Harris, sold, in 1854, for (COVERDALE). BIBLIA, The This is the same as that of 1535, with a 3651.; Dent, part i. 630, title and two fol- different title. Two copies known: Gloulowing leaves in fac-simile, 891. 5s.; Sothe-cester Cathedral and Earl of Jersey, with by (Hawtrey), July, 1853, 16 leaves in fac- the map. See Cotton, p. 11, 275. simile, 1117.; another, Sotheby, Aug., 1857, the map, title, preliminary leaves, six leaves in Genesis and last seven of Reve-Byble, that is the holy Scrypture of lations in fac-simile by Harris, 1907.; Duke the Olde and Newe Testamet faythof Sussex, in 1844, pt. i. No. 1425, the map fully translated in Englysh, and newand title in fac-simile by Harris, but wantly oversene and corrected. Southing the whole of the preliminary matter;| the copy damaged and stained, 1307. Other warke, for Jas. Nycolson. 1537. folio. copies, more or less imperfect, have been Collation. Title. Epistle unto the King, sold at sums varying from 30l. to 60%.] by Coverdale, (with name of Queen Jane), Collation. Wood-cut title; dedication to 5 p. Prologue, 6p. The bokes of the Holy K. Henry VIII. 5 pp. A prologe to the Bible, 2 p. Contents of Genesis, 1 p. Gereader,' 6pp.; "The bokes of the hole Byble,' nesis to Ruth, i-cxvi (for cxvii). Title to 2 pp. The contentes of the boke of Genesis,' Second part, 11. 1 Sam. to Hester, li-c. 1 page. The first book of Moses, &c. fol. i.-Job to Canticles, i-lx. Title, 'All the |