The Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, the sons of Jacob.

Folger bibliographic ID: 144464
ESTC number: R219196
Wing number: T797A
Folger call number: Film Acc. 627
Folger holdings ID: 205565

Bibliographic format

octavo

General notes

Title page woodcut "To the Christian reader" signed: Richard Day First edition translated by Anthony Gilby Signatures: A-K⁸ Final leaf has caption title and colophon: How these testaments of the twelve patriarchs were first found, and by whose means they were translated out of Greek into Latin. At London, printed for the Company of Stationers. 1679

Uniform title: Testamentum duodecim patriarcharum. English
Extended title: The Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, the sons of Jacob. : Translated out of Greek into Latine by Robert Grosthead sometime bishop of Lincoln: and out of his copy into French and Dutch by others, and now Englished. To the credit whereof, an ancient Greek copy written in parchment is kept in the university library of Cambridge
Alternate titles: How these testaments of the twelve patriarchs were first found, and by whose means they were translated out of Greek into Latin

Christian literature

associated with: Day, Richard, 1552-
associated with: Gilby, Anthony, approximately 1510-1585
associated with: Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253