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1673 1 st ed Brian Walton Polyglot Bible Biblical Chronology Proverbs JudaicaBeautiful Vellum Folio Biblicus Apparatus / Very RareBrian Walton (1600 - 1661) was an English priest, divine and scholar.We do not find another example of this extremely rare & important book for sale elsewhere worldwide!Main author : Brian Walton; Joannes DrusiusTitle : Briani Waltoni ... Biblicus apparatus, chronologico-topographico-philologicus: prout ille tomo praeliminari, operis eximii polyglotti, Londini, Anno Christi, MDCLVIII. editi, continetur. Exhibens tractatus varios, eosque integros diversorum virorum doctissimorum, & in omni literatura exercitatissimorum, de ratione sacrorum temporum, locorum, ut terrae promissae, templi, urbis Ierosolymitanae, &c. Nummorum, mensurarum, ponderum, nec non idiotismorum Scripturae Sacrae, linguarum, & versionum Orientalium. Adjiciuntur Johannis Drusii ...Published : Tiguri : Ex typographeo Bodmeriano, 1673.Language : Latin & HebrewNotes & contents :· Incredibly rare 1 st edition· Text in Latin with some passages in Hebrew· Codices, chronologies, proverbs, and Holy Land details all come directly from the 1657 edition of the Polyglot Bible.· From the famous James Bell Collection in 1898FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDEWear : wear as seen in photosBinding : tight and secure vellum bindingPages : complete with all 570 pages; plus indexes, prefaces, and suchPublisher : Tiguri : Ex typographeo Bodmeriano, 1673.Size: ~14in X 8.5in (36cm x 22cm)FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDEShipping:Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.Satisfaction Guarantee:Customer satisfaction is our first priority. Notify us within 7 days of receiving your item and we will offer a full refund guarantee without reservation.$1500Brian Walton (1600 - 29 November 1661) was an English priest, divine and scholar.Contents [hide]1 Life2 The Polyglot Bible3 Manuscripts used by Walton4 Notes5 References6 Further reading7 External linksLife[edit]He was born at Seymour, in the district of Cleveland, Yorkshire. His early education was at the Newcastle Royal Free Grammar School [1]. He went up to Cambridge as a sizar of Magdalene College in 1616, migrated to Peterhouse in 1618, was bachelor in 1619 and master of arts in 1623.[1] After holding a school mastership at Suffolk and two curacies (the second as curate of All-hallows, Bread Street), he was made rector of St Martin's Ongar in London, and of Sandon, in Essex, in 1626. At St Martin's Ongar he took a leading part in the contest between the London clergy and the citizens about the city tithes, and compiled a treatise on the subject, which is printed in Brewster's Collectanea (1752). His conduct in this matter displayed his ability, but his zeal for the exaction of ecclesiastical dues was remembered in 1641 in the articles brought against him in parliament, which appear to have led to the sequestration of his very considerable preferments.[a] He was also charged with Popish practices, but on frivolous grounds, and with aspersing the members of parliament for the city.In 1642 he was ordered into custody as a delinquent; thereafter he took refuge in Oxford, and ultimately returned to London to the house of William Fuller (1580?-1659), dean of Ely, whose daughter Jane was his second wife. In this retirement he gave himself to Oriental studies and carried through his great work, a Polyglot Bible which should be completer, cheaper and provided with a better critical apparatus than any previous work of the kind.He was buried in St Paul's Cathedral in London, but the grave and monument were destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. His name appears on a modern monument in the crypt, listing important graves lost in the fire.[citation needed]The Polyglot Bible[edit]The proposals for the Polyglot appeared in 1652. The book itself came out in six great folios. The first volume appeared in September 1654; the second in July 1655; the third in July 1656; and the last three in 1657. Nine languages are used: Hebrew, Chaldee, Samaritan, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, Ethiopic, Greek and Latin. Among his collaborators were James Ussher, John Lightfoot and Edward Pococke, Edmund Castell, Abraham Wheelocke and Patrick Young, Thomas Hyde and Thomas Greaves. The great undertaking was supported by liberal subscriptions, and Walton's political opinions did not deprive him of the help of the Commonwealth; the paper used was freed from duty, and the interest of Cromwell in the work was acknowledged in the original preface, part, of which was afterwards cancelled to make way for more loyal expressions towards that restored monarchy under which Oriental studies in England immediately began to languish. To Walton himself, however, the Restoration brought no disappointment. He was consecrated bishop of Chester in December 1660. In the following spring he was one of the commissioners at the Savoy Conference, but took little part in the business. In the autumn of 1661 he paid a short visit to his diocese, and returning to London he died.According to an assessment in Chisholm (1911):However much Walton was indebted to his helpers, the Polyglot Bible is a great monument of industry and of capacity for directing a vast undertaking, and the Prolegomena (separately reprinted by Dathe, 1777, and by Francis Wrangham, 1825) show judgment as well as learning. The same qualities appear in Walton's Considerator Considered (1659), a reply to the Considerations of John Owen, who thought that the accumulation of material for the revision of the received text tended to atheism. Among Walton's works must also be mentioned an Introductio ad lectionem linguarum orientalium (1654; 2nd ed., 1655), meant to prepare the way for the Polyglot. In 1669, Dr. Edmund Castell published the "Lexicon Heptaglotton" in two folio volumes. This was a lexicon of the seven Oriental languages used in Walton's Polyglot, and had grammars of those languages prefixed.Manuscripts used by Walton[edit]Minuscule 47Minuscule 57Codex MontfortianusMinuscule 96Minuscule 2818 read more

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