Terminology Tuesday: Polyglot Bibles
Polyglot Bibles. A Bible issued in several languages, mostly Hebrew* (Masoretic Text* and Samaritan Pentateuch*), Greek*, Aramaic*, Syriac*, Latin* and Arabic*, often with Latin versions of the non-Latin texts, sometimes with grammars and lexicons, and usually in parallel columns. Several appeared in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the first being the Complutensian Polyglot* and the others the Antwerp*, the Paris* and London*. Of special value to scholars because of the amount of material they contain.
Gilmore, A. (2000). Polyglot Bibles. In A Dictionary of the English Bible and Its Origins (Vol. 67, p. 136). Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press Ltd.