The Giolitti Bible

New York, with Iolitos, 1588 (in Venice, at the Gioliti, 1588) The Bible is printed in 4 ° with two-column text with very small round characters and with frequent and very elegant wood engravings. The Gioliti printing house was one…

The Hebrew Bible printed

After the invention of printing, one of the first books to be printed was the Bible. The Hebrew text was also soon printed. The first complete printed Bible (editioprinceps) was published in 1488 In the north of Italy, a Soncino, gives…

The Gutenberg Bible

In 1452 Gutenberg began printing Jerome's Vulgate. To carry out this work, he needed financiers. Johannes Fust lent him the sum of 800 guilders in the 1449 and 1452 added others 800 guilders. Aeneas…

the Vulgate

This term designates since the Middle Ages the Latin version of the Bible edited by S. Girolamo. In reality, S. Jerome translated from Hebrew only the books of the Old Testament which were included in the canon of the Hebrews and the New…

Seventy-la

Modern editions of the LXX have followed two different methods. The Gottingen edition of the LXX, edited by Rahlfs, instead of sticking to the reproduction of a single manuscript as does the Cambridge edition which refers to the Vatican Code…

The Leningrad Code

The Code of Leningrad B 19 A dates back to 1008-1009 D.C., as it appears from " colophon" copyist at the end of the Code: Samuel ben Jacob declares that in that year he copied the text from a copy written by Aaron ben Moses ben…

Codes of Cairo and Aleppo

Over the centuries Judaism was strengthened in the system of vocalization said "tiberiense", by school "Tiberias", city ​​on the lake of the same name, who developed this system. Another system developed by the scribes bore the name of…

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