[16], 501, [blank], 1-566 pp. + colophon. Full-page wood engraved plate. (Collation: †8 (title, plate, introductions, blank), A-TT6; a-zz6, aaa8). Many errors in pagination, but text continuous and complete. (Folio) 17½x11½, period full calf, rebacked and with new morocco lettering pieces, all edges gilt.
Superbly printed New Testament complete in Volume 5 (of 8) from Plantin's Polyglot Bible: "Biblia Sacra Hebraice, Chaldaice, Graece, & Latine," also known as the Royal Polyglot. Text printed in 4 columns across facing pages in Syriac, a Latin translation of the Syriac, Latin Vulgate, and Greek. Hebrew text in 2 columns across the bottom of each page. Introductory text by general editor Benedictus Arias Montanus is followed by the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in the first part and the books of Acts, the Epistles, and the Apocalypse in the second part.
Condition:
Covers scuffed and worn but nicely rebacked and quite presentable; small embossed stamp in margin of plate; old dampstain with tidemark to bottom of pp. 11-48; upper corner tip of p. 49 and bottom corner tip of 143 torn away, very good.