IBLIA sacra recognita & emendata ab BGascony. He entred the Order of St. Benedict, and professed in 1668. He spent thirty Years in visiting Libraries, and thereby enabled himself to put out a new Edition of St. Jerome. He de- Andreâ Osiandro Seniore, in 4to. Nurimbergæ, 1522. Andrew Osiander was a Protestant, as all the World knows. He made no new Translation of the Bible, but only corrected the old Vulgate, and reformed it from the Hebrew and Greek.
Biblia Latina, ad fontes Hebraici Textus emendata, cum brevi & perspicuâ expositione Lucæ Osiandri, 7 Vols. in 4to. Tubingæ, 1574, 1586. Luke Osiander did no more than correct the Vulgate, in order to accommodate it to Luther’s Version and Opinions. His Translation and Annotations have been frequently reprinted, in 1589, 1593, 1597, 1599, 1600, 1606, 1609, 1615, 1618, 1635.
Biblia Sacra cum Observationibus Andreæ Osiandri Lucæ filii, in fol. Francofurti & Tubingæ, 1600. Andrew Osiander the Younger, has followed the Method of his Father Luke Osiander. This is no new Translation that he has published, but a Reformation of the Vulgate, with the Addition of Notes by several Lutheran Doctors of his Communion.
Biblia Vulgatæ Editionis emendata studio Conradi Pellicani, cum ejus Commentariis, 7 Vols. in fol. Tiguri, 1592, 1598. He has pursued the same Method as the two preceding Writers above mentioned. There is a fine Preface in this Bible, and an excellent Discourse upon the Holy Scriptures, by Pellican and Bullinger. At the End there is the whole History of the Scripture in Elegiac Verses, composed by Rodolphus Gautier. There is mention of this Bible in the Preface to the Synopsis of the Criticks, in 4to. and in Thuanus’s History, l. 36. p. 726. which should be rather understood of the Zurich Bible, printed in 1543. which we shall speak of lower.
Biblia Latina Rob. Steph. in 8vo. 1555. It is divided into Chapters and Verses, and is the first of the Old Testament published in this way; for as to the New, he had already printed the Greek Text in 1551, with two Latin Versions, distinguished by Verses.
Biblia Hebraica & Latina, ex versione Sebast. Munsteri, cum Annotationibus, &c. 2 Vol. in fol. Basil. 1594, 1595. His Edition has been often reprinted, as we have observed already. The Learned agree, that no Protestant Author has succeeded better in his Translation; but he is reproached with adhering too closely to the Rabbins.
Biblia Sacra ex sanctis Pagnini translatione recognita & Scholiis illustrata, curâ Michaelis Villanovani, in fol. Lugd. 1542. This Michael Villanovanus is thought to be the same Person with Servetus, famous for his Anti-Trinitarian Errors: And of this we are able to assure our Readers, since we have seen his Bible in the Library of St. Mihiel, with his real Name prefixed to it without Disguise. That of Villanovanus is only a borrowed one, in order to conceal himself.
Biblia Sacra, ex Hebraicis Græcisque fontibus in Latinam Translata per Theologos Tigurinos, in fol. Tiguri, 1543. This is the famous Version of Zurich. Leo de Juda has translated the whole Old Testament out of Hebrew into Latin, excepting the eight last Chapters of Ezekiel, the last forty-eight Psalms, Daniel, Job, Ecclesiastes, and the Canticles, which were translated by Theodore Bibliander. Those Books which are in Greek only have been turned into Latin by Peter Cholin. The Version of the New Testament is Erasmus’s. The Protestants set a great Value upon this Translation. M. Simon reproaches Leo de Juda with being sometimes rather a Paraphrast than a Translator. This Version has been several times reprinted, in 1544, -45, - 50, -64, 84, 1616, &c.
Biblia, veteris Test. ex Hebræo, & novi ex Græco, Interprete, Sebast. Castalione, cum ejus Annotationibus, in fol. Basil. Oporini, 1551. This Edition is in Italick Characters. Castalio has affected such a Purity of Language as has raised both Catholicks and Protestants equally against him. He has enervated, as we may say, the Force of the Scriptural Expressions, and quite stifled the Genius of the Hebrew Tongue with his effeminate Affectations. Thuanus speaks thus of him, l. 35. Castalio cum puriorem linguarum cognitionem ad Theologicam Scientiam adjunxisse se putaret, impurissimas manus multorum judicio ad sacra tractanda attulit, cum à rebus ad tantum opus necessariis homo imparatissimus novam Bibliorum interpretationem insolenti temeritate molitus est: And Genebrard, in his Preface to Origen’s Works; Castalionis Versio est affectata, plus habens pompæ & phalerarum, quam rei & firmitatis, &c. Notwithstanding it has been printed several times, in 1554, -56, -73, 1697, 1699. The Edition of 1573 passes for the best, and has been commended by Men of Learning.
Biblia Latina ex Versione Emman. Tremellii, & Franc. Junii, in fol. Francofurti ad Mænum, Andreæ Wechel. The first part was printed in 1575, the second in 1576, the third and fourth in 1579. The New Testament is not in this first Edition, which has been several times reprinted. The Protestants esteem this Version at a very high rate, especially in England, and at Geneva: Nevertheless some Criticks observe, that it is paraphrased in many Places; and John Drusius has severely censured it. Junius’s Notes are very much valued.
Biblia Latina ex Versione Piscatoris, in 8vo. Herborn. Nassoviorum ab ann. 1601. ad ann. 1618. Piscator has written pretty good Comments upon the whole Old Testament, Testament, but has translated out of Hebrew into Latin, Job only, the Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and the four Great Prophets. Again, in the Old Testament he has made use of Junius and Tremellius’s Edition, and in the New of Beza’s.
Biblia Sacra ex Linguis originalibus in Latinam translata à Sebastiano Schmidt Lutherano, in 4to. Argentorati, 1696. This Edition is in good Latin, plain, clear, and easy. The Author was near fourscore when he published it. There was a second Edition of his Bible in 1708, in 4to. much more correct than the former, as we read in the Preface, written by the Faculty of Strasburg, who published this new Edition. The Summaries of every Chapter are not by Schmidt, but by John Frederick Spoor. The Acta Lipsiensia speak of this Bible in the Year 1696, p. 357. and Fabricius, in the History of his Library, tom. III. p. 350. where, among other things, he says, that his Version does not answer Expectation, and that it is obscure in many Places. Schmidt was a German, born at the Village of Lampertheim, a Lutheran, and Professor at Strasburg; where he died in 1690. We shall have occasion to speak of his other Remarks on the Scripture.
Biblia Latina, Joan. Clerici cum ejus Paraphrasi & Notis, in fol. Amstelodami 1693, & seq. Hitherto we have no more of M. le Clerc’s on the Old Testament, than the Pentateuch and the Historical Books, in three Vols. First of all we have the Latin Text, with a New Distinction of the Chapters; below is a Paraphrase in Latin; and last of all the Literal Comment. There are some Dissertations upon Scripture Subjects, or important Points of Discipline, either at the Beginning or the End of every Chapter. There is observed to be a great deal of Socinianism in his Notes, which makes them very dangerous. We shall speak in a proper Place of his French Version of the New Testament, and more largely of his Notes, in the second Article of the following Part.
Thomas James, or Jamesius, put out Bellum Papale, which was printed at London in 1600, in 4to. and 1678 in 8vo. It is written upon the Edition of the Vulgate published by the Order of Sixtus V. and Clement VIII. whereof he takes upon him to expose the Faults and Contradictions. Altho’ this Work, as to the Authors Motive of composing it be bad, it has, notwithstanding, its Advantages. The Author was an Englishman.