(BIBLE. POLYGLOT.) Biblia Sacra, Ebraice, Chaldaice, Graece, Latine, Germanice, Italice, studio & labore Eliae Hutteri. Title within

woodcut historiated architectural border. Syriac in Hebrew characters, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, German, and Italian in parallel columns. Folio, contemporary vellum, front joint restored. Nuremberg, 1599 All published of Hutter's polyglot Old Testament, complete through the book of Ruth. Four varieties of this edition occur, with either a Slovenian, Italian, French, or Low German version printed in the sixth column. The Hebrew text is printed in Hutter's square type, using hollow letters to indicate inflections. According to Dibin (Introduction, pages xx-xxii), this edition "... ranks among the scarcest books in bibliography. Copies of the Old Test. are scarcer than those of the New." Darlow & Moule 1427. With the early 19th-century stamp of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich (duplicate); and the signature of the Philadelphia physician John Redmond Coxe (1773-1864).