BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST

OF SOME OF THE

EDITIONS OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES

IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGES, AND IN THE ANCIENT VERSIONS;

WITH

NOTICES OF THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS.

[In re-editing this portion of the Rev. T. H. Horne's Bibliographical List, such additions and other changes have been made as appear necessary. Such additions, &c., are in general distinguished by being included within brackets.]

INTRODUCTION.

GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHICAL WORKS, TREATING ON THE EDITIONS, LITERARY HISTORY, CRITICISM, ETC. OF THE BIBLE.

1. BIBLIOTHECA sacra in binos syllabos distincta. Quorum prior, qui jam tertio auctior prodiit, omnes sive Textus Sacri sive Versionum ejusdem quâvis linguâ expressarum_editiones, necnon præstantiores MSS. Codices, cum notis historicis continet Posterior vero continet omnia eorum opera quovis idiomate conscripta, qui huc usque in Sacram Scripturam ediderunt, simul collecta, tum ordine alphabetico disposita, tum serie sacrorum librorum. Huic coronidis loco subjiciuntur Grammaticæ et Lexica Linguarum præsertim orientalium, quæ ad illustrandas sacras paginas aliquid adjumenti conferre possunt. Labore et industria Jacobi LE LONG. Parisiis 1723, 2 tomis folio.

The third and best edition of a most laborious work. The first edition appeared at Paris in 1709, in 2 vols. 8vo. ; the second at Leipsic, in the same year, with additions by C. F. Boerner. 2. Bibliotheca Sacra post Jacobi Le Long et C. F. Boerneri iteratas curas ordine disposita, emendata, suppleta, continuata ab Andrea Gottlieb MASCH. Halæ, 1774-1797. 5 vols. 4to. frequently bound in two thick volumes.

This elaborate work, which was discontinued for want of adequate support, is confined to the printed editions of the Holy Scriptures. Part I. contains editions of the original Hebrew and Greek text. Part II., in three volumes, treats on the Greek, Oriental, and Latin versions, and on editions of them; and the last volume comprises a supplement to the preceding volumes. We have been largely indebted to this publication for much information concerning the printed editions of the Old and New Testament. To this valuable work the Bibliotheca Biblica Serenissimi Wuertembergensium Ducis, olim Lorkiana, published by J. G. C. Adler, at Altona, in 1787 (in five parts forming two quarto volumes), is an indispensable supplement. It is very justly characterised by Bp. Marsh as "a catalogue of great merit and utility," and contains notices of some versions and translators, which have escaped even the researches of Dr. Masch. 3. Discours Historique sur les principales Editions des Bibles Polyglottes. Par l'Auteur de la Bibliothèque Sacrée. [Jacques LE LONG.] Paris, 1713, 8vo. 4. CALMET (Augustine), Bibliotheca Sacra, or a Catalogue of the best books that can be read in order to acquire a good understanding of the Scripture. Folio.

This Catalogue fills a considerable portion of a volume in the various French editions of Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible. It also occupies two hundred and eighty-four pages of the third volume of the English translation of that Dictionary, in folio. It contains copious notices

of the earlier biblical critics and commentators, and other writers on Scriptural Antiquities, &c. This valuable Catalogue is omitted in the quarto edition of Calmet's Dictionary, published by he late Mr. C. Taylor.

5. Joh. Christophori WOLFII Bibliotheca Hebræa; sive Notitia tum Auctorum Hebræorum cujuscumque ætatis, tum Scriptorum, quæ vel Hebraice primum exarata, vel ab aliis conversa sunt, ad nostram ætatem deducta. Accedit in calce Jacobi Gaffarelli Index Codicum Cabbalisticorum MSS. quibus Joh. Picus, Mirandulanus Comes, usus est. Hamburgi et Lipsiæ, 1715-33, 4 tomis, 4to.

6. Jo. Georgii WALCHII Bibliotheca Theologica Selecta, literariis adnotationibus instructa. Jenæ, 1757-58-62-65, 4 vols. 8vo.

All who are conversant in sacred literature have borne willing testimony to the correctness and research of Walch, whose work will always remain a production, admirable for the diligence and for the extensive reading and accuracy which it evinces. The sound judgment, remarkable in other works of this theologian, is conspicuous in this publication. All possible aids for theological literature are here embraced. The whole is well arranged: with regard to many books, their contents and value are stated, and directions are given where more extensive information is to be obtained. Of many important works an extensive and accurate literary history is given. All departments of theology have a rich collection of books pertaining to them described, and abundant materials are furnished for the history of religion. The third and fourth volumes are chiefly interesting to Biblical students. How much the author of the present work is indebted to the Bibliotheca Theologica Selecta, the frequent references made to it will sufficiently attest. In 1770, Walchius published a Bibliotheca Patristica in one large volume 8vo. it contains an excellent account of treatises on the lives and erudition of the Fathers of the Church, and on the editions of their writings. A new edition of this Work, much enlarged and improved, by J. T. L. Danzius, was published at Jena in 1834, also in one volume 8vo.

7. A Concise View of the Succession of Sacred Literature, in a Chronological Arrangement of Authors and their Works, from the Invention of Alphabetical Characters to the Year of our Lord 1445. By Adam CLARKE, LL.D. and J. B. B. CLARKE, M.A. London, 1831-32. 2 vols. 8vo.

The first part of the first volume, which comes down to A. D. 345, was published by Dr. Clarke in 1821, in one volume, 12mo. The remainder of the work was composed by his son, the Rev. J. B. B. Clarke. The whole contains much important information relative to biblical and ecclesiastical literature.

8. A Course of Lectures, containing a Description and Systematic Arrangement of the several Branches of Divinity, accompanied with an Account both of the principal Authors, and of the Progress which has been made at different Periods, in Theological Learning. By Herbert MARSH, D.D. [Bishop of Peterborough.] London, 1810-1823. 8vo.

Seven parts of these Lectures were published. They embrace almost every topic of Biblical Criticism and Interpretation, and also the genuineness, authenticity, and credibility of the Scriptures; and are particularly valuable for their bibliographical and critical notices of the principal writers who have treated on these subjects.

8*. Lectures on the Criticism and Interpretation of the Bible, with two preliminary Lectures on Theological Study and Theological Arrangement: to which are added two Lectures on the History of Biblical Interpretation. By Herbert MARSH, D.D. Bishop of Peterborough. London, 1828. New Edition, 1838. 8vo.

This is a new edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged, of the first four parts of the preceding course of Lectures. The two additional Lectures on the History of Biblical Interpretation, which were published separately, contain bibliographical notices of the principal writers on that subject.

9. Illustrations of Biblical Literature, exhibiting the History and Fate of the Sacred Writings, from the earliest Period to the present Century: including Biographical Notices of Translators and other eminent Biblical Scholars. By the Rev. James TOWNLEY, D.D. London, 1821. 3 vols. 8vo.

"The ample volumes before us comprise a rich fund of instructive and pleasing information on the subject of Sacred Bibliography. They have been compiled from a great variety of publications, many of them inaccessible to the generality of readers, and some of them of extreme rarity." "The industry and the accuracy of Mr. Townley will entitle his volumes to the approbation of the critic and the patronage of the public. They afford a more comprehensive view of the progress of Biblical Translations and of the Literary and Ecclesiastical History of the Holy Scriptures than is to be found in any other work." (Eclectic Review, N. S. vol. xviii. pp. 386. 407.)

10. An Introduction to the Literary History of the Bible. By James TOWNLEY, D.D. London, 1828. 12mo.

This handsomely executed volume, which is a second edition of the Biblical Anecdotes pub

lished by Dr. Townley in 1813, may be considered as an epitome of his Illustrations of Biblical Literature. It contains many interesting anecdotes relative to the Literary History of the Scriptures from the earliest period to the commencement of the nineteenth century.

11. Bibliotheca Biblica: A Select List of Books on Sacred Literature, with Notices Biographical, Critical, and Bibliographical. By William ORME. London,

1824. 8vo.

For many of his titles and notices of books, Mr. Orme has been indebted to the present Work, to which he has honourably acknowledged his obligations. "The theological student cannot fail to derive much advantage from it; and the more learned divine will find it an excellent supplement to the Bibliotheca Theologica Selecta of the laborious Walchius, or to the erudite Bibliotheca Sacra of Le Long." (British Critic, N. S. vol. xxii. p. 486.)

12. Bibliothèque Sacrée Grecque-Latine; contenant le Tableau Chronologique, Biographique, et Bibliographique, des Auteurs Inspirés et des Auteurs Ecclésiastiques, depuis Moïse jusqu'à Saint Thomas d'Aquin. Ouvrage rédigé d'après Mauro Boni et Gamba. Par Ch. NODIER. Paris, 1826. 8vo.

A convenient summary of biblical and ecclesiastical Bibliography. The author first gives a concise biographical notice of the sacred and ecclesiastical writers, and then specifies the principal editions of their works. A List is then subjoined of the Collections of the Canons and Acts of Councils and of the Canon Law, of Ecclesiastical Biographers, and of the Works of the Greek and Latin Fathers, and other Ecclesiastical Writers, and of the Greek and Latin Christian Poets.

13. Bibliotheca Sussexiana. A Descriptive Catalogue, accompanied by Historical and Biographical Notices of the Manuscripts and Printed Books contained in the Library of His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF SUSSEX. By Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, F.R.S., &c. &c. London, 1827-40. 2 vols. in three Parts. Imperial

8vo.

This magnificent Publication has a claim to be noticed in the present Catalogue of Biblical Works, on account of the diversified and important information which it communicates respecting Editions of the Holy Scriptures, and which is not to be found in the bibliographical treatises already described; and as a record of the editions collected by His Royal Highness.

The First Part of Vol. I. of the Bibliotheca Sussexiana is appropriated to MANUSCRIPTS, the number of which amounts very nearly to three hundred: these are arranged according to languages, viz., in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, English, Irish, Arabic, Persian, Armenian, Pali, Singhalese, and Burman. The Second Part treats on PRINTED EDITIONS of the Holy Scriptures, disposed under the following titles, viz. Polyglotts of the Old and New Testaments and of detached portions thereof; Hebrew Bibles, Hebrew and Hebrew-Samaritan Pentateuchs, and portions of the Old Testament in Hebrew ; — - Greek Bibles, Greek Pentateuch, and portions of the Old Testament in Greek;-Latin Bibles, and parts of the Old Testament in Latin.

Vol. II. comprises Editions of the New Testament in Greek, together with the rarest and best editions of Versions of the Holy Scriptures, both ancient and modern.

The entire Catalogue forms an aggregate of upwards of sixteen hundred articles, very many of which are among the rarest and most valuable in Sacred Bibliography. Much as has been accomplished by preceding authors who have treated on Sacred Bibliography, Mr. Pettigrew has contributed various additions to this branch of literature. He has described the several editions of the Scriptures, and curious specimens of metrical Versions are introduced, besides numerous biographical and critical anecdotes of authors and editors. The numerous engravings are executed in the highest style of the chalcographic art. It would be injustice to the memory of the late distinguished owner of this magnificent library, not to acknowledge the very liberal facility with which His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex permitted it to be consulted by scholars. This library was dispersed by auction in 1844, when many of its choicest volumes, biblical, liturgical, classical, and miscellaneous, were purchased for the national library at the British Museum.

There are copies of this Catalogue in small folio, the typographical splendour of which is unequalled.

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[14. Variæ Lectiones Veteris Testamenti . . . Opera et Studio J. B. DE ROSSI, S.T.D. Parma, 1784. 4to. 4 vols.

J. B. DE ROSSI Scholia Critica in V. T. Libros. Parma, 1798. 4to.

These works contain, subjoined to the introductions, a remarkably complete account of the editions of the Hebrew Bible. Jahn gives a summary in his Hebrew Bible, vol. iv. pp. 550 -568.]

[15. Die Geschichte der Heiligen Schriften Neuen Testaments entworfen von Eduard REUSS. 2te Ausgabe. Braunschweig, 1853. 8vo.

This work deserves to be mentioned in this place, on account of the pains taken in describing the editions of the Greek New Testament, and the texts which they respectively contain. See §§ 399-419. The notices of the ancient versions are also useful. Of the 369 editions noticed by Masch which appeared prior to 1780, Reuss states that 212 are in his own possession. § 411. note.]

[16. An Account of the Printed Text of the Greek New Testament, with Remarks on its revision on Critical Principles. By Samuel Prideaux TREGELLES, LL.D. London, 1854. 8vo.]

CHAPTER I.

ENTIRE TEXTS AND VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE.

SECTION I.

PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF THE HEBREW BIBLE.

BISHOP WALTON1, Carpzov2, and particularly Le Long, have treated at great length on the various editions of the Hebrew Scriptures. These have been divided by De Rossi, and others, into Masoretic and Non-Masoretic editions,—a distinction which cannot be fully carried out, as all have sprung from Masoretic copies. In the present section, Dr. Masch's improved edition of Le Long's Bibliotheca Sacra3 has been chiefly followed. The various impressions of the Hebrew Bible may be divided into the four following classes, viz.

(1.) Editiones Principes, or those first printed.

(2.) Editiones Primaria, or those which have been adopted as the bases of subsequent impressions.

(3.) Editions, the text of which is accompanied with Rabbinical Commentaries. (4.) Editions, which are furnished with Critical Apparatus.

§ 1. EDITIONES PRINCIPES.

1. Psalterium Hebraicum, cum commentario KIMCHII. Anno 237 (1477). 4to. The first printed book of the Hebrew Bible. It is of extreme rarity, and is printed (probably at Bologna) with a square Hebrew type, approaching that of the German Jews. The text is without points, except in the four first psalms, which are clumsily pointed. The commentary of Rabbi Kimchi is subjoined to each verse of the text in the rabbinical character, and is much more complete than in the subsequent editions, as it contains all those passages which were afterwards omitted, as being hostile to Christianity. Prof. Jahn states that it is incorrectly printed, and that the matres lectionis are introduced or omitted at the pleasure of the editors.

[2. Pentateuchus Hebraicus. Bononiæ, 1482. Fol.

This is said to be a remarkably correct edition. The vowel points are expressed.]

[3. Prophetæ priores et posteriores cum commentario Kimchi. Soncini, 1486. Fol. 2 tom.]

[4. Quinque Megilloth cum Comm. Jarchi, &c. [Bononiæ, 1482] Fol.]

[5. Quinque Megilloth. Soncini et Casali, 1486. 4to.]

[6. Hagiographa. Neapoli, 1487. 4to.

These portions contain the whole of the Hebrew Bible, which was very soon after printed unitedly.]

1 Prolegom. cap. iv. De Bibliorum Editionibus præcipuis.

2 Critica Sacra, pars i. cap. 9. pp. 387-428.

3 Bibliotheca Sacra, post Jacobi Le Long et C. F. Boerneri iteratus curas ordine disposita, emendata, suppleta, continuata ab Andrea Gottlieb Masch. Hala, 4to. 1778-85-90. 4 vols. with Supplement. The account of Hebrew editions is in the first volume, pp. 1–186. 331-424. De Bure's Bibliographie Instructive, tom. i. (Paris 1763), and Brunet's Manuel du Libraire, et de l'Amateur de Livres (5 vols. 8vo. Paris 1842, 4th edit.), have also been consulted occasionally. [De Rossi is the authority on whom the editor has relied as to the early editions.] 4 [This has been incorrectly supposed to be the first printed Hebrew book; but De Rossi showed in his "De Hebraica Typographiæ origine ac primitiis" (Parma 1776), p. 7., that the Commentary on Job by Rabbi Levi, the son of Gershon (Ralbag), was completed at an earlier period in the same year (the one at the end of May, and the other at the beginning of September); and in his "De Typographiâ Hebræo-Ferrarensi Commentarius Historicus" (Erlangen 1781), he showed that Abraham Ben Chajim had printed at Mantua and Ferrara, in 1476, part of the Arbah Turim of Rabbenu Asher; and still earlier (1475) Jarchi's Commentary on the Pentateuch had appeared.]