The Complutensian Polyglot Bible (Alcala de Henares, 1514-1517)

The Bible that Cardinal Cisneros had set in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin at the new university of Alcala, and whose New Testament volume carries a printed colophon dated 10 January 1514. Read from the sheets it is less a monument than a working instrument: parallel columns keyed by superscript letters, marginal columns of Hebrew and Aramaic roots, a Greek dictionary bound in at the back, and errata leaves that correct the book in four scripts.