[Rarebooks] FS - Biblia Pentapla 1711/1712

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*GLUSING, Johann Otto (ed. - attr..)/ BIBLIA PENTAPLA, das ist: Die 
Bucher der Heiligen Schrift des Alten und Neuen Testaments. /*Printed 
and published in Gottorf, Germany, by Hermann Heinrich Holle, in 1711 
and 1712. Two volumes, bound in period full vellum with yapped edges. 
Usual darkening and scuffing to vellum. Wear to corners. Hinges tender 
but holding. Contents age-toned, but perfectly readable. A good/good 
plus copy.
¶ By making possible the comparison of multiple translations, the 
purpose of the Biblia Pentapla was to improve the understanding of the 
words of the Scripture, and to enable the reader to learn the basis of 
each religious group's beliefs. It contains the translation by Caspar 
Ulenberg of the so-called "Mainz" bible, which was the most widely-used 
translation in the Roman Catholic Church at that time. It also contained 
Martin Luther's translation, the reformed bible of Joseph Piscator, the 
Dutch State Bible, and the "Jewish translation" of the Old Testament by 
Rabbi Joseph Josel as taken from the text printed in Amsterdam in 1670. 
In place of the New Testament, was reproduced the new translation of the 
radical Pietest Johann Henrich Reitz. Besides the Apocypha and the 
Pseudopigrapha, the Biblia Pentapla also included the Apostolic Fathers, 
as translated by Gottfried Arnold.

Magne Saebo, in "The Hebrew Bible / Old Testament / The History of Its 
Interpretation", attributes (p. 914) the editorship of this Biblia 
Pentapla to Johann Otto Glusing (1676-1727). Volume I (pp. 1,650) 
contains Genesis to Job; volume II (pp. 1,076, 584) contains the balance 
of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha. A third volume, containing the 
New Testament, is absent. Our copy has an ink name on each of the front 
free endpapers. Each page of the text is in five columns, with 
contrasting scriptural interpretations. Elaborate engraved frontispiece 
in vol. I shows the Garden of Eden. The title page of volume I is 
printed in red and black ink. The text is in German. See Darlow & Moule, 
vol. two, p. 503.

A photo of the title page and frontispiece of the first volume may be 
viewed at: http://www.greenfieldbooks.com/Pics/BibliaPentapla.JPG

Price: $950  #040780

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