on the Pentateuch, with Latin versions. The fifth vol- ume has the N. T.. with Arias Montanus's translation; the Syriac, Persic, Latin, Vulgate, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions. These, with separate Latin versions of the Oriental translations, are all given on one page. The sixth volume contains various readings and critical re- mark-. I be « bole of this stupendous labor was com- pleted in four years. It was published by subscription, under the patronage of Oliver Cromwell, who died be- fore its completion. This gave occasion to the cancel- ling of two leaves of the preface, in order to transfer to king Charles II the compliments addressed to Crom- well. 'I'lerc an- in consequence both republican and
royal copies, the former of which arc the si scarce
and valuable. For the variations between these, see
Butler's Hora Biblica and Adam Clarke's Succession of
I iterature. This polyglot was accompanied by
I ' ■ in 2 VOla. fol. Sec CAS-
nit: Wm i"V
iits's Polyglot, published under
tne l''1' ' co V. Test. Hebr, etc.
(1747 51, 8 vols. foL). The N\ T. was published firel
ind with a new title-page in 1717. while the
published in 1760 51. I he first volume con-
o I the e
1 ks "' ther with the a, ryphal I ks.
ic Hebrew, the Alexandrian vi rsion and Seb.
and Luther's German translation are
of the apocryphal books is thai
I In V I.. comprising the third volume,
• riac, the vulgar Grei k
German version.
we may mention the
Polyglot (8 vols. Vol., ex officina
Sanct-Andreana, 1686; 2d ed. 1699; 8d ed, 1616), the
li ■: or Wolder's Polyglot (Hamburg, 1696, foL),
and Hatter's, of which only the Pentateuch, Joshua, Judgi b, and Ruth were published (Xorimberga?, 1599, the X. T. But by far the best of all these small polj glol - is Ri ineccius's.
Of the polyglots published in our century, we men- tion Mr. Bagster'a Polyglot | Loud. 1831, foL I, containing : cue the Hebrew text, the .Samaritan Penta- teuch, the Septuagint, Vulgate, and Syriac versions, the (.reek text of Mill in the X. T.. together with Luther's German, Diodati's Italian. Ostervald's French, Scio's Spanish, and the English A. V. of the Bible. The pro- i nl S. Lee are a very useful help to the student. The cheapest and most generally useful polyglot is one entitled Polyglotten-Bibel zum praktischen Handge- brauch, edited by Drs. Stier and Theile. It contains the Hebrew, Septuagint, Vulgate, ami German, in the 1 1. T.. and the Greek, Vulgate, and German, in the X.T. I be latest polyglot edition is the Hexaglot /lible, com- prising Uu Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testa- ments in tin original Tongues, together with tht Septua- gint, tin Syriac (of the New Testament), tin Vulgate, the Authorized English and German, and the most approved French Versions, edited by R. De Levante (Lond. 1876, 6 vols, royal Ito).
There are also polyglots of several portions of the Bible, of which one of the most valuable is that pub- lished at Constantinople, in Hebrew, Chaldee, Persian, and Arabic, in 1546. The Rabbinical Bibles (q. v.) are in many cases also to some extent polyglot Besides the article Biiu.e, see Ernesti, li> J:il'/ii.< Polygloltis (Wittenb. 1688); Darling, Cydopcedia Bibliographiea (Holy Scriptures), col. 39 sq.; Rosenmuller, Handbuch ihr biblischen Literatur, iii, 281 sq.; Le Long-Masch, Bibliotheca Sacra, i. 331 sq.; Eichhorn, Einleitung in it, is .1. Test. | Index iii VOL v. s. v. Polyglotte) ; Simon, Hist. Critigin du Vieux Testament (Rotterdam, 1685), p. 514 sq.; Carpzov, Critica Sacra (Lipsia. 1 TT-'S ■. p. :>*7 sq.; Knrtlmlt. 'tract, de variis Scriptura edition, cap. xxxii, p. 374 sq. ; Tenzel, Diatribe J'/ii/nl. <h- Hililiis Fu/yi/liittis (Wittenb. Hist!): Celsius. J>, liihliis Polg- glottis dissertatio (Upsala, 1707); Wolf, Biblioth. Hebr. vol. ii, § in. p. 332 sq.; Walton, Prolegom. § 11: Hofc- tinger, Bwliothecar, Quadripartitum, p. 133 sq.; Alter, Bibliograph. Nachrichten (Wien, 1779), p. 30 sq.; Reuss, Bibliotheca Novi Testamenti, etc, (Brunsviguse, 1872), § 5; and his art. Polyghtten-Bibeh in Herzog, Real-Eti- cyldop.; the art. Polyglott in Kitto; Diestel, Gesch, des Alien Test. (Jena, 1869), p. 207, 264, 255; and. as far as the Complutensian Polyglot is concerned, the excellent monograph of Delitzsch, Studien zur Entstehungsgesch. der Polyglotten-Bibel des Cardinals Ximenes (Leips. 1871). "(15. P.)
Polyhistor, Alexandj r, a Roman writer whose works bave been used by the Church lathers, a na- tive of Cotyaum in Phrygia, according to some, and of Miletus according to other-, was a geographer and his- torian, who lived in the 7th century of Koine, and was taken prisoner by the Romans in the war of Sulla against Mithridates. Being purchased by Cornelius Lentulua, he was intrusted by him with the education of his chil- dren, and at last received his freedom. He then as- sumed the name of Cornelius, after that of his patron. lie resided chiefly at Rome, and had a country-house at Laurentum, in which, having taken tire while he waa there, he perished in the flames. He is often mentioned and quoted hy I'liny the Elder. Diogenes l.aerlius. Cle- mens Alexandrinus, and Eusebius, as a man of very ex- tensive learning, in consequence of which he was styled Polyhistor. He wrote a work in forty hooks, each hook being the description of a distinct country. Stephanos Byzantinus mentions his account of Bitbynia, Caria, Paphlagonia, Syria, Libya, Crete, and other countries. Uexandrinus quotes his Treatta on tht Jews, ofwhich Eusebius has inserted fragments in his "Chro- nography." Clemens Alexandrinus mentions another Pi lyhistor, on the Symbol of Pythagoras ; and Cyril of Alexandria, in hi- work against Julian, quotes