1685 · Amsterdam
by [BIBLE]; Courcelles, Etienne de
Amsterdam: Typographia Blaviana [Pieter Blaeu], 1685. Very good.. Lovely late Dutch Golden Age edition of the New Testament in Greek. Any history of the Bible attests that questions of translation have engendered problems of theology; a printed New Testament in Greek was a serious need for humanist and religious scholars alike. Yet printed editions of the New Testament in Greek were delayed behind their Latin counterparts for two main reasons: Greek typefaces took longer to develop than Roman, and fewer European scholars studied Greek. The New Testament was first printed in Greek in Erasmus's famed 1516 edition, with scholarly editions like this one (truncated)