The printed Complutensian Bible

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What was the purpose of the Complutensian polyglot Bible?

• The editors’ goals

What texts are included?

• The textual canon

How are the six volumes organized?

• Contents and organization
• References:
  • title pages
  • prologs
  • colophons
  • quire registers
  • complete collation

How does a reader use it?

Multilingual reading regardless of experience with the languages:

• Tour of a page (in progress)

Reference materials for cutting-edge cross-lingual philology:

• Combining indexes and texts for philological research

Historical contexts

• When was it created? Dating the individual parts of the Complutensian
• How much did it cost?
• How many surviving copies can we identify?