B I B 



371 



B I B 



(this Polyglott was not completed), and in Nisielii B. 

 Hebr. 1662, 8vo. 



VI. Buxtorfs octavo edition, Basel, 1611, was the pro- 

 totype of B. Hebr. typis Menasseh Ben Israel, sumt. Jan- 

 sonii, Amst. 1639, 8vo. (The editions by Menasseh Ben 

 Israel in 1630-31 and 1631-35 have another text.) Bib!. 

 Rabb. Buxtorf, Bas. 1618-19; Bibl. Rabb. op. Mos. Franc- 

 furt, Amst. 1 724, fol. 



VII. B. Hebr. correcta et collata cum antiquissimis et 

 accuratissirois exemplaribus manuscriptis et hactenus im- 

 pressis (cum praefat. Johannis Leusden), typis Jos. Athiae, 

 Amst. 1661, 8vo. and 1667, 8vo. From this edition ori- 

 ginated the following : B. Hebr. Clodii Francf. ad Moenum, 

 1677, 8vo., recogn. a J. H. Majo et ultima resv. a J. Leus- 

 deno, Francf. a M. 1692, 8vo. ; Biblia ad optimorum tam 

 impressorum Clodii, Jablonskii, Opitii, quam manuscripto- 

 rum aliquot codicum fldem collata; direxit opus J. H. 

 Majus, collat. instituit G. Chr. Biirclin, Frcf. a M. 1716, 

 4to. ; B. Hebr. ex rec. Dan. Era. Jablonskii, Ber. 1699, 8vo. 

 maj. This sometimes deviates from Leusden according to 

 the authority of manuscripts and the cardinal editions, viz. 

 Bombergiana, Venet. Regia, Basileensis Buxtorfii, Hut- 

 teriana, Menassis, ed. 2, Berlin, 1772, 12mo. After this 

 B. Hebr. J. H. Michaelis, Hal. M. 1720, 8vo. maj. Car- 

 dinal editions are those ' quae reliquarum quasi cardinales 

 videbantur,' the authority of which was followed by others. 

 After Athias also B. Hebr. stud, et op. Henr. Opitii Kil. 

 1709, 4to. ; and after this Bibl. Hebr. Ziillich, 1741, 4to. 

 B. Hebr. Ever. Van der Hooght, Amst. et Ultraject, 1705, 

 8vo., is a reprint of Athias's edition of 1667. Van der 

 Hooght' s reprint is famous for its accuracy. After this 

 B. Hebr. Sal. Ben Jos. Proops or Props, Amst. 1724, 8vo. ; 

 B. Hebr. Lat. (c. vers. Seb. Schmidtii) Lips. 1740, 4to. ; 

 B. Hebr. Lat. Car. Frc. Houbigant, Paris, 1753, four vo- 

 lumes fol. ; B. Hebr. Jo. Simonis Hal. 1752, 8vo., 1767, 8vo. ; 

 Biblia Hebr. Benj. Kennicot. Oxon. 1776-80, fol. (See 

 Bruns de Mendis typographieis editionis Van der Hooght. a 

 Kennicoto non sublatis in Eichhorn's Rep. xii. 225, seq.) 

 Van der Hooght's Bible has been of lato frequently re- 



S tinted in London. Editio nova, recognita et emendata a 

 osepho Samuele Frey, Typis Societatis ad promovendam 

 Christianitatem inter Judaeos, Lond. 1812, 8vo. ; B. Hebr. 

 ad ed. Hooghthianam adornata, Lond. typis et sumptibus 

 Sam. Bagster, 1823. In stereotype, Recognita et emendata 

 a Judah D'Allemand, Typis A. Macintosh, impensis Jacobi 

 Duncan, 1823, 1325, large 8vo. ; duodecimo with Hebrew 

 title, 1825; large 8vo. reprinted 1828, 1830, corrected by 

 Hurwitz, 1 833. The most beautiful type is employed in the 

 Biblia Hebraica secundum editiones Jos. Athiae, Jo. Leus- 

 dfin, Jo. Simonis aliorumque imprimis Everardi van der 

 Hooght, recensuit Augustus Halm, Theol. Doctor et Pro- 

 fessor in Acad. Lipsiensi, editio stereotypa sumptibus Ca- 

 roli Tauchnitz, 1831, 8vo. and in duodecimo, 1833. 



The following is a list of the critical apparatuses by which 

 the text has been purified : The great and the small Masora, 

 and various readings in the rabbinical Bibles of Bomberg 

 and Buxtorf. Selections of various readings in the editions 

 of Miinster, Van der Hooght, and in the '!? riTOD. with 

 the critical commentary of R. Sal Norzi, Mantua, 1 742-44, 

 four volumes ; C. F. Houbigant Notso criticae in univ. V. 

 T. libros cum Hebraice turn Greece scriptos cum integris 

 cjuadem Prolegomenis ad Exemplar Parisiense denuo re- 

 CUSJD, torn. i. ii. Francf. a M. 1777, 4to. Comp. J. D. Mi- 



chaelis Vorrede, zum kritischen Collegia iiber die drei wieh- 

 tigsten Psalmen von Christo; J. Chr. Kallii Prodr. ex- 

 aminis criseos Houbigantianae in Cod. Hebr. Hafniaa, 1763, 

 4to. ; Ej. Examen cris. Houbig. in Cod. Hebr. spec. i'. 

 Hafn. 1764, 4to. ; Seb. Rau Exercitationes phil. ad Houbi- 

 gant. Prolegomena, 1785, 4to. ; Kennicott's Dissertations on 

 the Hebrew text and his Bible. Com. Bruns de variis lec- 

 tionibus Bibl. Kennicot. in Eichhorn's Repertorium xii. 242, 

 seq. xiii. 31, seq.; Bruns Apologie fur Kennicot in Eich- 

 horn's Rep. vi. 173, seq. ; Rosenmiiller's Handbuch, i. 241, 

 seq. ; Bibl. Reineccii ed. J. Chr. Doderlein et J. H. Meis- 

 ner. Lips. 1793, 8vo. ; B. Hebr. dig. et grav. lectionum 

 varietatem adjecit J. Jahn, Viennce, 1807, 3 volumes, 8vo. 

 Biblia Hebraica without points, after the text of Kennicott, 

 with the chief various readings selected from his collation 

 of Hebrew manuscripts, from that of De Rossi, and from 

 the antient versions, accompanied with English notes, cri- 

 tical, philological, and explanatory, selected from English 

 and foreign critics by B. Boothroyd, in two volumes, 4to. 

 Pontefract, without the date. 



Besides those in the editions of Kennicott, Jahn, &c., we 

 notice the following collections of various readings: "13D 

 miJT> JVD miDD, by Rabbi Meir Hallevi, Berlin. 1761 ; 

 mi/1 niX printed in HIT Vlttf, Ven. 1618, and inaccu- 

 rately, Amst. 1558. Commentatio critica sistens duorum 

 codicum manuscriptorum Biblia Hebr. continentium quis 

 Regiomonti Borussorum asservantur cum prtecipuarum va- 

 riantium lectionum sylloge, auctore D. Theod. Christ. Lilien- 

 thal. Regiomonti et Lipsico, 1770, 8vo/ The most important 

 work of this kind is by J. B De Rossi ; Variae Lectiones Vet. 

 Test, ex immensa Manuscriptorum editorumque coilicum 

 congerie haustse et ad Samaritanum textum, vetustissimas 

 versiones, et accuratiores sacra) criticaa fontes ac leges ex- 

 aminatae, Parmaa, 1784-88; iv. volumina 4to. maj.; and 

 Scholia crit. in V. T. libros, seu supplementa ad varias sacri 

 textus lectiones, Parmae, 1798. 



Among the oldest manuscripts, nearly 1500 in number, 

 which have been collated, is the Laudianus in the Bodleian 

 Library at Oxford, which is considered to be 800 years old : 

 this MS. differs in 14,000 readings from Van der Hooght's 

 text, which is now in common use. Besides this there are 

 many important MSS. at Oxford and in the British Mu- 

 seum in London, one in the library of the Royal Society, 

 one in the Lambeth Library, and one MS. of the Pentateuch 

 in the library of the London University. In the seventh 

 and the following volumes of the Classical Journal is a 

 catalogue of MSS. existing in the public libraries of Great 

 Britain, and a very complete list of Hebrew MSS. is pre- 

 fixed to De Rossi's Varite Leciiones : less complete in 

 Kennicott's Dissertalio Prceliminaris. 



These codices are known among critics by names like the 

 following: Carlsruhensis, Viennensis, Cesenco.in the Mala- 

 testa Library at Bologna, Florentinus 2, Mediolanensis 9, 

 Norimbergensis 4, Parisiensis 27, Regiomontanus 2, Pa 

 risiensis 24. 



To illustrate the appearance of these codices may serve a 

 fac-simile of Deut. iv. 1, 2, from an antient Hebrew MS. 

 of the Pentateuch, called by the Rev. H. Home Codex Mala- 

 baricus ; it was brought in the year 1806 from the interior 

 of Malayala by the late Rev. Claudius Buchanan, D.D., and 

 is now preserved in the public library of the University of 

 Cambridge. 



It measures forty-eight feet in length. The whole book wanting. The original length was about ninety feet. Its 



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