A manual of Biblical bibliography

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Introduction

General Bibliographical Works, treating on the Editions, Literary History, Criticism, &c. of the Bible Page 1—3

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Holy Scriptures.

Cuaprer I. Entire Texts and Versions of the Bible.

Section I. Principal Editions of the Hebrew Bible - 4 § 1. Editiones Principes - - - - 4, § 2. Editiones Primariz ; or, those which have been adopted as theBases of subsequent Impressions 5 § 3. Editions of the Bible with Rabbinical Commentaries - ” 5 4, Editions with Critcsl Notes sath Apparatus” - 6-—11 Section II. Editions of the Hebrzeo-Samaritan Pentateuch - 1] Section III. Principal Editions of the Greek Testament, and of detached Books thereof - * 12—- 34: Section IV. Polyglott Bibles; or, Editions of the Old a New Testaments, with Versions in several Languages 35—39 Triglott Testament ” - - - 40 Diglott Bibles - - “i 40 Section V. Antient Versions of the Old and New Toten 4] § 1. Targums, or Chaldee gee ures on the Old Testament - - - 41, 42 § 2. Antient Greek Verio - - - - 42 [i.] The Septuagint - : - 42—4°7 [ii.] Editions of Origen’s Hess - - 47, 48 [iii.] Another antient Greek Version - - 48 § 3. Antient Oriental Versions . my key = “48 [i.] The Syriac Versions - - 48 The Peschito, or Old Syriac Vern : 48 The Philoxenian Syriac Version - - 49 [ii.] The Arabic Version - - - = 50, 51 fiii.] The Persic Version - - - 51 Liv. ] .The Egyptian Versions - - : 51 The Coptico-Memphitic, or Version in the Dialect of Lower Egypt - - - 51 vi SYNOPTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Section VY. Antient Versions, continued.

The Sahidic, or Version in the Dialect of Upper Egypt = - : : : The Bashmouric, or Dialect of Bashmour, Province of the Delta - - [v.] The Ethiopic Version -. . [vi.] The Armenian Version - 7 - § 4. Antient Western Versions - - s [i.] The Latin Versions - = Ante-Hieronymian Versions, or those made before the time of Jerome - - The Version of Jerome - ‘ 7 The Latin Vulgate - “ F [ii] The Gothic Version - - F ; [ili.] The Sclavonic Version - = - [iv.] The Anglo-Saxon Version - Section VI. Modern Versions of the Old and New Testaments § 1. General Observations on the Circulation of the Scriptures - - a .

I. Scarcity and high Prices of the Scriptures. — II. Rude Attempts to convey an Ideaof their Contents to the Poor and Illiterate. — Account of the Bint1a Paurerum. — IlI. Number and Classification of the Translations of the Bible into modern Languages ~ - § 2. Modern Latin Versions of the entire Bible —- Versions made by Romanists - - - Versions made by Protestants - “ Latin Versions of the New Testament - - § 3. Versions in the Languages of Modern Europe - [i.] Versions in the Languages spoken in the British Isles - - - - - é Wicliffe’s Version : ‘ - English ProrestantT Versions : Tyndale’s Version - : - Coverdale’s Bible - - Matthew’s Bible - - - Hollybushe’s New Testament - Cranmer’s Great Bible - - Taverner’s Bible - a Other Editions of the English Bible during the remainder of Henry VIII.’s reign and the reign of Edward VI. - - 2 Anglo-Genevese Version - Archbishop Parker’s, or the Bishops Bible - .

King James's Bible, or the Authorised Version now in use - .

Testimonies of eminent Scholars to its value - - - Editions of the Authorised Version, with Marginal Renderings and Parallel References ~ - Editions of the Authorised Version, the Text of which is divided into Paragraphs according to the subject - - - Anglo-Romisu Versions ; .

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P Section VI. Modern Versions, continued. are Welsh Version - - = 90, 91 Irish Version 2 - : 92 Manks Version - . 5 92 Gaelic Version - : - 92, 93 [ii.] Versions in the Languages spoken on the Con- -tinent of Europe : : - 93 1. German Versions - ~ - 95 Luther's Version, and Versions in other Languages derived from it - - 93—95 Jewish German Versions - - 96 2. French Versions ~ - - - 97—99 3. (French) Basque Version - - - 99 4. Belgian Versions - - - 100 5. Italian Versions - - - = 100 6. Versions in the Spanish Language, and ‘its Dialects : ™ - - 100, 101 7. Russian Version i : a1 PLOT IO? 8. Croat Version - . - 102 9. Hungarian Version - ~ . 102 10. Polish Version - . - 103 11. Bohemian Version - : - 103 12. Romaic or Modern Greek Version - 103, 104 13. Wallachian Version - ~ - 104 . 14, 15. Bulgarian and Serbian Versions - 104: 16. Romanese Versions - - - 104 17. Turkish Versions - - - - 104, 105 18. Portuguese Versions - - - 105 19. Albanian Version : - - 105,.106 20. Maltese Version : - - 106 S 4. Modern Versions in the Languages of Asia — - - 106 " {i.] Hebrew - 2 . - 6 SAE 106 fii.] Chaldee — - - - - ~ 107 [iii.] Versions in the modern Oriental Languages 107 1. Versions in the Arasic Language, and its Cognate Dialects ~ 7 LOS 8109 2. Versions in the Sanscrit Language, and its Cognate Dialects . - 109—113 3. Versions in the CHINESE, and the Languages derived from or bearing Affinity to it E : : Jed eae fiv.] Other Asratic Versions - 4 - - 114 1. Formosan - - - - 114 2. Northern Asiatic ~ ° - 115 3. Georgian : - - - 115 4, Modern Armenian - : - 116 5. Tahitan - ah - . 116 6. Rarotongan - - : =) Ga 7. Curdish - - - - EL.

Fac-similes of Specimens of the Versions of the Sacred Scriptures in the Eastern | Languages” - - - - 118—122 ia § 5. Modern Versions in the Languages of Africa - 122 . 1. Amharic and Tigré, or the Vernacular Languages of Abyssinia - ~ mut he) ele 2 Berber Version - - 123

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Page Section VI. Modern Versions, continued. 3, Bullom Version - - - 123 4, Susoo Version : ~ - 123 5. Malagassé Version - - - - 124: 6. Mandingo Version - a - - 124 7. South African Versions - . 124 6. Modern Versions in the Languages of ‘America 124: ~ [i.] North American Versions - - 124 1. Virginian Indian Version - - - 124 2. Delaware Indian Version - - - 125 3. Massachussett Version . - - 125 4. Mohawk Version - “= wl Zoe 5. Mohegan Version - - - . 126 6. Esquimaux Version . : - 126 7. Chippeway Version : - - 126 8. Greenlandish Version - - - 126 9. Creolese Version - - - - 127, 10. Negro-English Version - - 127 (i1.] South American Versions ~ - - 128 Cuaprer II. Harmonies of the Old and New Testaments - 128 Section I. Harmonies of the Old Testament - - ~ 128—130 Section II. Harmonies of the entire New Testament, and of the Four Gospels - “ - 130—138

Section III. Harmonies of particular Parts ofthe Four Gospels 138, 139 Section IV. Harmonies of the Acts of the Apostles, and of the Apostolic Epistles - - - 139—141 Cuapter IJI. Apocryphal Books and Writings - 141 SecTion I. Apocryphal Books of the Old Testament - 141—150 Section II. Apocryphal Books of the New Testament -, 150, 151 PABT? Li Sacred Philology ; or,

The Criticism and Interpretation of the Scriptures.

Cuaprer I, Treatises on the Canon of Scripture, and on

Apocryphal Books - - - 152—155 Cnaprer II. Introductions to the Study of the Scriptures - 15

Section I. General Introductions to the entire Bible - 155—158 Sscrion II. Introductions to the Study of the Old Testament

in particular - - - =) f6S, 159 Srcrron III. Introductions to the Study of the New Testament

| in particular - - - - 160, 161 Cuaprer III. Treatises on the Sacred Text, its Style,

Idiom, and Versions ~ - - 161 Section I, Treatises on Sacred Criticism, generally, and on

the Style and Idiom of the Scriptures - 161—170

Secrion II. Treatises on Hebrew Poetry - : rie PLO, ae Section II. Treatises on the Quotations from the Old Testa-

| ment in the New “ - oe war yy.

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Cuapter III. Treatises on the Sacred Text, &c. continued.

Section IV. Treatises on Manuscripts and on Various Readings.—Collations of Manuscripts, and Collections of Various Readings - - -

§ 1. Treatises on Manuscripts - - -

2. Treatises on Various Readings -

; § 3. Collations of Manuscripts, and Collections of Various Readings - .

§ 4. Treatises on the Genuineness of the Disputed

Clauses in 1 John v. 7, 8. “ -

Section V. Treatises on Versions of the Seeipenred’ “

§ 1. Treatises on Antient Versions —— - -

§ 2. Treatises on Modern Versions - -

CuarTer IV. Treatises on the Original Languages of 3

Scripture, and Grammars and Lexicons thereof - - - -

Section I. Treatises, &c. on the Hebrew Language

§ 1. Treatises on the Study of the Hebrew EOE

and on the Vowel Points -

§ 2. Hebrew Grammars, and other Treatises on the | Hebrew Language, witH Points - - ia [i.] In the English Language - - [ii.] In the Latin, French, and German Languages . Hebrew Grammars, &c. wiITHOUT Points - . Hebrew Grammars wiTH and witHouT Points . Chaldee Grammars” - - ~ : . Grammar of the Samaritan Language — - -

Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon’s - -

. Hebrew, Latin, and English Sate WITH

Points - - - -

2. English and Hebrew Lexicons wit Ponts -

3. Hebrew and English Lexicon witout Points

Grammars and Lexiconsfor the Greek Testament

and for the Septuagint Version’ - -

§ 1. Grammars, and other Treatises on the Greek

Language of the New Testament - -

§ 2. Glossaries and Lexicons to the Greek Testa-

3. Lexicons to the Septuagint Version - -

Section IV. Grammars and Lexicons of the Cognate or

Kindred Languages - - .

. General Treatises, and Polyglott Grammar of

the Cognate or Kindred Languages _ - -

- Polyglott Lexicons of the Kindred HE cell - . Syriac Grammars and Lexicons -

. Arabic Grammars and Lexicons - -

. Egyptian Grammars and Lexicons - -

» Ethiopic Grammar and Lexicons ~~ - -

. Persian Grammars and Lexicons~— - -

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Section III

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CHAPTER V. Commentators, Interpreters, and Paraphrasts on the Scriptures - - - Section I. On the Interpretation of Scripture - - § 1. General Treatises on the Interpretation of Scripture - - - = - a

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177—180

180—185

185 185—189 189—192

193 193

204—208 208 208

209 209, 210

210—214: 214

223 224:

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Section I. On the Interpretation of Scripture, continued. § 2. Treatises on the Interpretation of the Figurative Language, and on the Spiritual and Typical Interpretation of Scripture - - § 3. Treatises on the Interpretation of Scripture

Proverbs and Promises - - = § 4. Treatises on the Interpretation of Scripture Prophecies - - ps

Warburtonian Lectures on Prophecy - -

Section Il. Jewish Writers and Commentators, and Illustra: tions of the Scriptures derived from Jewish

Sources - . - A 2

§ 1. Jewish Writers and Commentators - -

§ 2. Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures, derived

from Jewish Sources ts é J

Section III. Christian Commentators, Interpreters, and Paraphrasts on the Scriptures - - -

§ 1, Commentaries by the Fathers, and other Divines

of the Christian Church, previously to the

Reformation - : = :

[i.] Greek Fathers - . - oe ge

[ii.] Latin Fathers - - - -

[iii.] Later Divines of the Greek and Latin

Churches - Ms zs apa A

Greek Writers m e as :

Latin Writers = us pale de ioe

§ 2. Scholia on the entire Bible, or the greater Part thereof - * ag ‘ a“

§ 3. The principal.Commentators on the Scriptures, _ generally, since the Reformation - - [i.] Foreign Commentators on the whole Bible - [ii.] British Commentators § 4. Principal Commentators on the Old Testament, and on detached books thereof - -

[i.] Commentators on the Old Testament - [ii.] Commentators on detached Books of the Old Testament - - - Commentators on the Pentateuch and Histo-

rical Books . - - Commentators on the Poetical Books generally Commentators on the Book of Job - Commentators on the Book of Psalms - Commentators on the Book of Proverbs - Commentators on Ecclesiastes and the Song

of Solomon - . - - Commentators on the Prophets, generally - Commentators on the Prophet Isaiah - Commentators on Jeremiah and Lamentations Commentators on Daniel - - = Commentators on the Minor Prophets .

§ 5. Commentators on the Apocryphal Books of the Old Testament - Ss § 6. Principal Commentators on the New Testament, and on detached Books thereof - -

[i.] Commentators on the entire New Testament

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- CuapterR VII. Treatises on Biblical Antiquities, &c. continued.

SecTion II. Treatises on aaa las Subjects in Biblical Anti-

§ 1. Scripture Geogtaphiy - - - eT

[i.] Treatises on Scripture Geography - - 31/—379

[ii.] Biblical Atlasses and Maps - - - 379, 380

§ 2. Natural History of the Bible - - - 380—383

§ 3. Political Antiquities of the Jews - - 383 Treatises on the Laws, Government, Coins, &c. of

§ 4. Sacred Antiquities of the eve - - - 386 [i.] Treatises on the Ritual and Sacred Ceremonies

of the Jews - - - . - 386

[il.] Treatises on the Religious Notions of the Jews, on the Corruptions of Religion among them, and on the Sects into which they were divided 386—388 § 5. Domestic Antiquities, Literature, and Sciences of the Jews - - - ' 388 § 6. Miscellaneous Illustrations of Biblical Antiquities from Oriental Scenery, from Voyages and Travels in the East, and from ee ADU UAT a, and other Sources - - - 389—393 SECTION III. Treatises on the Genealogies santa in the

Section IV. Treatises on Sacred Chronology - - 394—397

Sretion VY. Connections of Sacred and Profane History. — Histories of the Bible and Scripture Biography 397—401

Bee 72 : pe _ BrBLioGRAPHICAL INDEX z = “ - 405—431

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Page © Section ILI. Christian Commentators, &c. continued. — fii.] Commentators on detached Books of the New

Testament = - ~ 307% Commentators on the Histotioal Books, S generally = - - 307—309 © Commentators on the Gospels af Matthew | ate and Mark - - - -< BiOneu Commentators on the Gospel af Luke - 311

Commentators on the Gospel of John - $12, 3139 Commentators on the Acts of the Apostles 313—315 — Commentators on the Whole or Greater t

Part of the Apostolic Epistles - 315—318 — Commentators on the Epistle to the - Romans - - - 318—322 — Commentators on the Lhe to the 3 Corinthians - - 322, 323 — Commentators on aie Epistles to the Pat Galatians and Ephesians - $23, 32s Commentators on the Epistles to the Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians - 324, 325° Commentators on the Epistles to Ny a Titus, and Philemon 325, 326 Commentators on the Seven Catholic ae Epistles ~ - 329—331 Commentators on the Apocalypse, or Reve- SS lation of Saint John 331—338 _

§ 7. Expository Lectures and Sermons on the sar 2

tures, and on detached Portions thereof - 338—349 —

§ 8. Treatises on reconciling the Contradictions a alleged to exist in the Scriptures - 349, 350°

§ 9. Principal Collections of Observations on the fs

Scriptures, Critical, Philological, and Miscel- g

[i.] Collections of Various Essays, and Commen- a

taries on detached Portions of the Scriptures 350—352

[ii.] Observations on the Scriptures, Critical, Phi- .

logical, and Miscellaneous - - 352—364 —

Cuapter VI. Concordances and Dictionaries, Common- a Place Books, Indexes, and Analyses of ‘a the Bible - - - - 365—374 —

Section I. Concordances to the Scriptures . - 364 — § 1. Concordances to the Hebrew Bible — - 365— » 2. Concordances to the Septuagint Greek Version 565, ; 3. Concordances to the Greek Testament - 365am 4. Concordance to the Latin Vulgate - . 366. 5. Concordances to the English Bible - = 867, 366 = 6. Concordance to the French Bible - - 367

Section II. Dictionaries of the Bible - - Section III. Common-Place Books to the Bible : Section IV. Indexes and Analyses of the Bible —-

Cuaprer VII. Treatises on Biblical Antiquities, and on - other Historical Circumstances of the Bible | - - - 374—401

SecTion I. General Treatises on Biblical Antiquities - 374—37 7 A MANUAL

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BIBLICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY.

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 quavis lingua expressarum editiones, necnon prestantiores MSS. Codices, cum notis historicis continet: Posterior vero continet omnia eorum opera quivis idiomate conscripta, qui huc usque in Sacram Scripturam ediderunt, simul collecta, tum ordine alphabetico disposita, tum serie sacrorum librorum. Huic coronidis loco subjiciuntur Grammatice et Lexica Linguarum presertim orientalium, que ad illustrandas sacras paginas aliquid adjumenti conferre possunt. Labore et industria Jacobi Lz Lone. 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 seeond, at Leipsic, in the same year, with additions by C. F. Boerner.

2. Discours Historique sur les principales Editions des Bibles Polyglottes. Par ]’Auteur de la Bibliothéque Sacrée. [Jacques Le Lona.] Paris, 1713, Svo.

3. Bibliotheca Sacra post Jacobi Le Long et C. F. Boerneri iteratas curas ordine disposita, emendata, suppleta, continuata ab Andrea Gottlieb Mascu. Hale, 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. eontains 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.

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. {t 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 the late Mr. C. Taylor.

5. Joh. Christophori Wotrit Bibliotheca Hebraea; sive Notitia tum Auctorum Hebrzorum cujuscumque etatis, tum Scriptorum, que vel Hebraice primum exarata, vel ab aliis conversa sunt, ad nostram etatem deducta. Accedit in calce Jacobi Gaffarelli Index Codicum Cabbalistic. MSS., quibus

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- General Biographical Treatises

Joh. Picus, Mirandulanus Comes, usus est. Hamburgi et Lipsizw, 1715—33, 4 tomis, 4to.

6. Jo. Georgii WALCHII Bibliotheca Theologica Selecta, literariis adnotationibus instructa. Jene, 1757—8—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 extensiye 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 Atrangement of Authors and their Works, from the Invention of Alphabetical Characters to the Year of our Lord 1445. By Adam Ciarxe, LL.D. and J. B. B. CLrarxe, M. A. London 1831—32. 2 vols. 8vo.

The first part of the first volume, which comes down to a, p. 345, was published by Dr. Clarke in 182], in one volume, 12mo. The remainder of the work was composed by his son, the Rey. 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 Herspert Marsu, D.D. [ Bishop of Peterborough.] London, 1810—1&23. 8vo.

Seven parts of these Lectures have been 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 Marsu, 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 Towntery, 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 Town ey, D.D, London, 1828, 12mo, on the Editions, 5c. of the Bible. 3

This handsomely executed volume, which is a second edition of the Biblical Anecdotes published 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. Bibliothéque Sacrée Grecque-Latine ; contenant le Tableau Chronologique, Biographique, et Bibliographique, des Auteurs Inspirés et des Auteurs Ecclésiastiques, depuis Moise jusqu’a Saint Thomas d’Aquin. Ouvrage rédigé d’aprés Mauro Boni et Gamba. Par Ch. Nopier. 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 Royay Hicuness tHE DuKE or Sussex. By Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, F.R.S. &c. &c. London, 1827. Imperial 8vo.

This magnificent Publication has a special 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.

The first portion of the Bibliotheca Sussexiana is appropriated to Mawnuscrirrs, 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 Printep Enirtions 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: forming an aggregate of four hundred and ninety-nine articles, 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, the laborious researches of Mr. Pettigrew have enabled him to contribute large and important additions to this branch of literature. He has accurately and minutely described the several editions of the Scriptures, and his Bibliographical Notices correct the errors, and supply the deficiencies, of former writers. 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 chaleographic art. Credit~ able as the work is to Mr. Pettigrew, in a literary point of view, it would be injustice to the distinguished owner of this magnificent library, not to acknowledge the very liberal facility with which His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex permits it to be consulted by scholars.

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

Hebrew Bibles. [Part I, Ch. I.

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Holy Scriptures.

Chapter I. Entire Texts And Versions Of The Bible

SECTION I.

PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF THE HEBREW BIBLE.

BISHOP WALTON], Carpzov?, 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, the utility of which is not perceived. In the present section, Dr. Masch’s improved edition of Le Long’s Bibliotheca Sacra? 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 Primariz, 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. Epirrones PRrincIPEs.

1. Psalterium Hebraicum, cum commentario Kimcui. Anno 237 (1477). Ato.

The first printed Hebrew book. 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.