Item details: Novum Testamentum, Graece & Latine. Theodoro Beza interprete [...] huic autem quartae editioni, praeter multorum locorum recognitionem, accesserunt breves difficiliorum phraseon expositiones [...]
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Bible, Greek New Testament:
Novum Testamentum, Graece & Latine. Theodoro Beza interprete [...] huic autem quartae editioni, praeter multorum locorum recognitionem, accesserunt breves difficiliorum phraseon expositiones [...]
Imprint: [Geneva: Henri Estienne], 1590 Binding:
Hardback
8vo. ff. [xiv] inc. blank, 256, 210. Text in three columns (Beza’s recension of the Greek text his translation and sidenotes). Occasional annotations and underlining of sidenotes in an early hand. Contemporary vellum.
The fourth ‘minor edition’ of Theodore Beza’s Greek New Testament (first printed in 1565). Beza’s text was a significant influence on English translations of the Bible leading up to the King James version of 1611. Beza himself (1519-1605), generally considered to be one of the most learned Reformation scholars, became Calvin’s coadjutor and successor at Geneva., Darlow & Moule 4651; Adams B-1713.
