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The Reformation · printed 1514–1517; issued 1520

The Complutensian Polyglot

Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros and his team · 1436–1517

What it is

The Bible in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin in parallel columns, with grammars and a Hebrew dictionary, produced at a Spanish university by Jewish converts and Greek scholars.

Why it lasted

The first printed polyglot Bible and a monument of Renaissance scholarship, delayed past Erasmus's edition by waiting for papal permission.

Where to read it

This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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