A manual of Biblical bibliography : comprising a catalogue ... of the principal editions and versions of the Holy Scriptures; together with notices of the principal philologers, critics, and interpreters of the Bible / [Thomas Hartwell Horne].

Horne, Thomas Hartwell, 1780-1862

Date:: 1839

Credit: A manual of Biblical bibliography : comprising a catalogue ... of the principal editions and versions of the Holy Scriptures; together with notices of the principal philologers, critics, and interpreters of the Bible / [Thomas Hartwell Horne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$SR ee RS ek De ek Bp atl eet OG PART I. Holy Scriptures. CHAPTER I. ENTIRE TEXTS AND VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE. SECTION I. PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF THE HEBREW BIBLE. BIsHop WALTON], Carpzov?, and particularly Le Long, have treated at great length on the various editions of the Hebrew Scriptures. These have been divided by De Rossi and others into Masoretic and Non-Masoretic editions,—a distinction, the utility of which is not perceived. In the present section, Dr. Masch’s improved edition of Le Long’s Bibliotheca Sacra? has been chiefly followed. ‘The various impressions of the Hebrew Bible may be divided into the four following classes, viz. (1.) Editiones Principes, or those first printed. (2.) Editiones Primaria, or those which have been adopted as the bases of subsequent impressions. : (3.) Editions, the text of which is accompanied with Rabbinical Com- mentaries. exe (4.) Editions, which are furnished with Critical Apparatus. § 1. Epiriongs PrINcIPEs. Ato. ‘The first printed Hebrew book. It is of extreme rarity, and is printed (probably at Bologna) with a square Hebrew type, approaching that of the German Jews. The text is without points, except in the four first psalms, which are clumsily pointed. ‘The commentary of Rabbi Kimchi is subjoined to each verse of the text in the rabbinical character, and is much more complete than in the subsequent editions, as it contains all those passages which were afterwards omitted, as being hostile to Christianity. Prof. Jahn states that it is incor- rectly printed, and that the matres lectionis are introduced or omitted at the pleasure of the editors. 2. Biblia Hebraica, cum punctis. Soncino, 1488, folio. The first edition of the entire Hebrew Bible ever printed. It is at present of such extreme 1 Prolegom. cap. iv. De Bibliorum Editionibus precipuis. 2 Critica Sacra, parsi. cap. 9, pp. 387—428. 3 Bibliotheca Sacra, post. Jacobi Le Long et C. F. Boerneri iteratus curas ordine disposita, emendata, suppleta, continuata ab Andrea Gottlieb Masch. Hale, 4to. 1778—85—90. 4 vols. with Supplement. The account of Hebrew editions is in the first volume, pp. 1—186. 331—424, De Bure’s Bibliographie Instructive, tom. i. ( Paris 17 63), and Brunet’s Manuel consulted occasionally. ; ‘\$