You’ve probably seen them: locked cases scattered across Tyndale Library, full of aged (and often quite large) books. These are the Tyndale archives, forbidden to the touch of public hands, but displayed nonetheless for their historical value.
Still, they can easily go unnoticed. In the interest of combatting this tendency, therefore, I intend to regularly highlight items from the archives, beginning with none other than:
TESTAMENTI VETERIS BIBLIA SACRA
By: Tremellius, Junius, Beze (i.e. Beza)
Printed: 1593
Donated to Tyndale by: The Wenden House Project, 2014
WHAT IS IT?
The Testamenti Veteris Biblia Sacra is, chiefly, a Latin translation & edition of the Old Testament from the Hebrew, put together by Franciscus Junius the Elder and Immanuel Tremellius (both early, prominent Protestant scholars and Hebraists). Tyndale’s edition also includes:
POINTS OF INTEREST
HOW TO READ IT
Although the archived edition is not available for checkout, Tyndale’s “Reference” section actually has a photocopied edition of the Junius-Tremellius Bible, albeit without the annotations. Only, be warned: the print can be difficult to read in places. Beza’s New Testament, by itself, is also in the Reference section, with clear and readable text. Readable, that is, if you know Latin.
* S. L. Greenslade, ed., The Cambridge History of the Bible: The West from the Reformation to the Present Day, (London: Cambridge Universtiy Press, 1963), 72.
** Ibid., 167.
*** William B. Hunter Jr, ed., A Milton Encyclopedia: Volume 8 Sm-Z, (New Jersey: Associated University Press, 1980), 88-89.
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