Bible. Greek. New Testament.

Greek title:] Novum Testamentum. [ed. É de Courcelles]

Amsterdam, D. Elzevier 1675.

Two parts in one volume. 12mo (153 x 98 mm.) — the printed leaves neatly inlaid into folio sheets (273 x 202 mm.). [xii], 420, 312p. Title in red and back with a woodcut Elzevier Minerva device. annotated by three different hands in red, green and brown inks.

Mid-19th-century half-calf and marbled boards (worn, spine and rear hinge cracked), gilt flat spine and paper label, old dark blue edges; 34 interleaves (5 with notes); 26 blank leaves bound in before the text and 8 after (4 have the start of an index).

            AN EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED GREEK NEW TESTAMENT WITH INTERLINEAR AND MARGINAL NOTES IN LATIN, GREEK AND HEBREW BY THREE 18TH-CENTURY READERS. The annotations include commentary, translations, variant readings, critiques of theological arguments and citations to secondary sources and Bible passages.
            The first and most prolific annotator was Protestant Laurentius Maneken (d. 1758), who studied at the Hamburg Gymnasium in 1701. He glossed the Greek text while the book was still in pocket format, noting vocabulary and textual variants in red ink. He then had his marked-up portable New Testament transformed into a large-format repository for scholarship. He focused on the Gospels, as did the other annotators.
            Fifteen years ago, I had another copy of this Elzevier edition similarly inlaid and copiously annotated by at least three hands (now Houghton f FC6.C8333.675n). I cannot explain why this particular edition proved the vehicle for at least six readers to record their opinions and research. In good condition, bookplate of Prof. Shlomo Simonsohn (1923-2019).
¶Willems, Les Elzevier 1513; Sillem, Die Matrikel des Akademischen Gymnasiums in Hamburg 1613-1883 75.

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