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Biblia Sacra polyglotta (edited by Brian Walton)
London: Thomas Roycroft, 1657 (volume II
colophon 1655, volume III colophon 1656) folio
Ref: D. + M. 1446 Wing B-2797 Rumball-Petre, Rose
Bibles, 50. The Bible in the Lilly Library. 32

See
#4
#328
A + B
#563
#516

Copy: Stanford, HEHL
KC1657 B5F NUMERI.
O.T. Numbers Cap XXII, 12->24
p. 645-6 my leaf is Oooo^3 (of 4)
Tom. I.
Engraved portrait of Walton by P. Lombat.
engraved title page, double page maps + plans by
W. Hollar

The 4th + last of the great polyglots, known as
the London or Walton's Polyglot.
The Hebrew, Syriac, Samaritan, Arabic + Ethiopic
types were especially cut for this ed.; other languages
include Persian, Chaldee, Greek + Latin.
The Ethiopic + Persian languages are here added for
the 1st time in a complete Polyglot Bible.
There were 2 issues of the Preface called
respectively "Republican" + "Royal". In the
latter, the assistance of Oliver Cromwell in allowing
the paper for the work to be imprinted free of duty
is not mentioned.

generally considered the most accurate of the so-called
4 great polyglots (Plantin 1569-72, Paris 1629-45,
Complutensian)

The frontispiece opposite vol I's engraged title page is
a portrait of Walton seated in his study at his desk,
c his source texts at hand.