Greek printing.- Bible, Greek. Vetus Testamentum Graecum, 1 vol. in 2, first edition of the Greek Septuagint Bible printed in England, title in red and black with engraved vignette, title in Latin and Greek, preface in Latin, text in double-column in Greek, minor soiling and light staining, handsome early 18th century red morocco, gilt, spines gilt in compartments with 3 green morocco labels, g.e., fine decorative endpapers a little discoloured round edges, bookplate of Bibliotheca Lamoniana, later bookplate of the Bishop of Salisbury, [Darlow & Moule 4692], 4to, Roger Daniel, 1653. ⁂ A lovely copy of the rare first printing in England of the Septuagint, the earliest translation of the Hebrew Old Testament into Greek. Edited by the Unitarian controversialist John Biddle (1615-1662), 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).
Greek printing.- Bible, Greek. Vetus Testamentum Graecum, 1 vol. in 2, first edition of the Greek Septuagint Bible printed in England, title in red and black with engraved vignette, title in Latin and Greek, preface in Latin, text in double-column in Greek, minor soiling and light staining, handsome early 18th century red morocco, gilt, spines gilt in compartments with 3 green morocco labels, g.e., fine decorative endpapers a little discoloured round edges, bookplate of Bibliotheca Lamoniana, later bookplate of the Bishop of Salisbury, [Darlow & Moule 4692], 4to, Roger Daniel, 1653. ⁂ A lovely copy of the rare first printing in England of the Septuagint, the earliest translation of the Hebrew Old Testament into Greek. Edited by the Unitarian controversialist John Biddle (1615-1662), 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).
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