Mishlei Shlomo [Proverbs]. Hebrew, with translation by Hezekiah Rieti into Italian (Tuscan) in Hebrew letters.

(BIBLE)

Bragadin

Venice

1617

First edition of translation. Composed in two columns. Divisional title before chap. 25.

Vinograd, Venice 1101; Mehlman 83.

“The fourth and the last of the great Polyglots; known as the London, or Walton’s Polyglot. The most accurate and best-equipped of the great Polyglots.” Darlow & Moule 1446. The original ("republican") version was printed with a lengthy preface in Volume I discussing Oliver Cromwell’s role in the duty-free importation of paper for this edition. After the Restoration, copies not yet sold were given the"loyalist" preface, which omitted mention of Cromwell's help in the production of the book. Accompanied by: Edmund Castell. Lexicon Heptaglotton. Two volumes. London, Thomas Roycroft, 1669. Darlow & Moule note that Castell’s work is “often bound uniformly with, and as a supplement to, this Polyglot Bible, and really forms an essential part of the work.”