Bible, Greek.- Vetus Testamentum Græcum ex
Bible, Greek.- Vetus Testamentum Græcum ex versione Septuaginta interpretum, juxta exemplar Vaticanum Romæ editum, edited by John Biddle, double column, Greek type, title in red and black and with large engraved printer's device, Q8 tear affecting outer column, 2X8 small hole in inner column, some creasing, [Wing B2718], Roger Daniel, 1653 bound with In Sacra Biblia Græca ex versione LXX. interpretum scholia; simul et interpretum cæterorum lectiones variantes, Greek type, title with woodcut printer's device, lacking final blank, Roger Daniel, 1653, slightly browned, occasional spotting, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked in later calf, gilt, lge. 8vo.
⁂ The first printing in England of the Septuagint, the earliest translation of the Hebrew Old Testament into Greek. Edited by the Unitarian controversialist John Biddle (1615-62), who was imprisoned by the Parliamentary Commissioners for his religious opinions. "Roger Daniel's version of the text of the Sixtine edition [was] prepared for the use of the scholars at Westminster School. This appeared in 1653 and was edited by the Socinian, John Biddle. Its publication may have owed something to the interest in the Septuagint generated by Codex Alexandrinus and the frustration produced by the failure of Young's attempts to edit it" (S. Mandelbrote, English Scholarship and the Greek Text of the Old Testament, p. 87). The second part, often lacking, is rare.
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Bible, Greek.- Vetus Testamentum Græcum ex versione Septuaginta interpretum, juxta exemplar Vaticanum Romæ editum, edited by John Biddle, double column, Greek type, title in red and black and with large engraved printer's device, Q8 tear affecting outer column, 2X8 small hole in inner column, some creasing, [Wing B2718], Roger Daniel, 1653 bound with In Sacra Biblia Græca ex versione LXX. interpretum scholia; simul et interpretum cæterorum lectiones variantes, Greek type, title with woodcut printer's device, lacking final blank, Roger Daniel, 1653, slightly browned, occasional spotting, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked in later calf, gilt, lge. 8vo.
⁂ The first printing in England of the Septuagint, the earliest translation of the Hebrew Old Testament into Greek. Edited by the Unitarian controversialist John Biddle (1615-62), who was imprisoned by the Parliamentary Commissioners for his religious opinions. "Roger Daniel's version of the text of the Sixtine edition [was] prepared for the use of the scholars at Westminster School. This appeared in 1653 and was edited by the Socinian, John Biddle. Its publication may have owed something to the interest in the Septuagint generated by Codex Alexandrinus and the frustration produced by the failure of Young's attempts to edit it" (S. Mandelbrote, English Scholarship and the Greek Text of the Old Testament, p. 87). The second part, often lacking, is rare.
