Texts in Vulgate Latin, Arabic, Aramaic (the Targum Onkelos), Ethiopic, Greek (the Septuagint), Hebrew, Persian, and Syriac (the Peshitta); editorial matter in Latin.

Collective t.p., illustrated t.p., and frontispiece bound at the beginning of vol. 6.

Added illustrated t.p. reads: S.S. Biblia polyglotta.

Vols. 1-5 contain the Biblical texts. The unnumbered 6th vol. contains Walton's preface, essays, plans, maps, and the prolegomena (all of which were bound at the beginning of Vol. 1 in the original edition [Wing B2797]), plus "Ad Biblia sacra polyglotta appendix," which has critical essays, appendices, variant readings, annotations, and indexes.

Each vol. has special t.p. Vol. 1 is dated 1653; vol. 2, 1655; vol. 3, 1656; vols. 4-5 and Appendix, 1657.

Engraved frontispiece portrait of Walton signed: Lombart sculpsit; engraved t.p. signed: W. Hollar fecit.

Vols. 1-2 appear on reel 1170, vols. 3-4 on reel 1171, and vols. 5-6 on reel 1172.

Imperfect: vol. 2, p. 216-17 missed in photographing. Bristol Reference Library no longer available as a microfilming source; best copy available for photographing.

Reproduction of original in the Bristol Reference Library.

Wing B2797 Variant a

Available electronically as part of Early English books online.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1981. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1170, 1171, 1172)