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Hutter (Nuremberg) Polyglot New Testament

The Nuremberg Polyglot by Elias Hutter in 1599. It ranks among the scarcest books in bibliography. It contains the New Testament in the following 12 languages - Syriac, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, German, Bohemian, Italian, Spanish, Gallic, English, Danish, and Polish. The Nuremberg Polyglot was developed from Protestant Bibles, except for the Latin which was from Jerome's corrupt Latin Vulgate, in order to contrast the difference with the others. However, Hutter changed the texts of the Latin, to match the Protestant translations. The Syriac was taken from Tremellius's 1569 second edition, with certain additions by Hutter himself. The Hebrew was Hutter's own 1587 translation. The Greek was the Textus Receptus. The German he took from Luther’s German Bible. The Bohemian, which is the old Czech dialect, he copied from a 1593 edition of the Kralice Bible. The Italian he took from the Genevan version of 1562. The Spanish he got from the 1562 Bear Bible of Reina’s. The French he copied from the Genevan revision of 1588. The English he took from the 1562 Great Bible. The Danish was from the King Christian III Bible. The Polish was from the 1596 edition that had been translated from Luther’s G

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