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- adjective Of or relating to Complutum (now Alcala de Henares), a city near
Madrid inSpain .
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Alcalá (in Latin Complutum, hence the name Complutensian Bible),
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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"At Alcala (the Latin Complutum) Cardinal Ximenes superintended the monumental Bible known as the Complutensian Polyglot, in which Jerome's Latin, the Vulgate, appeared flanked by Hebrew on the one side and Greek on the other, thus placed between the Synagogue and the Greek Church (as the cardinal pleasantly remarks) like Christ crucified between two thieves."
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In the library there are several valuable bibles, including a copy of the famous first polyglot, known as the Complutensian, which was printed in six volumes at Alcala in Spain between 1502 and 1517, but was not published until 1522, owing probably to the death of its great promoter,
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At Alcalá was printed under Cardinal Ximenez 'care the polyglot Bible known as the Complutensian Bible, the first of the many similar Bibles produced during the revival of Biblical studies that took place in the sixteenth century.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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It has been thus far impossible to ascertain what codices served as the basis of the work called the Complutensian
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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For Tindale there were available two new and critical Greek Testaments, that of Erasmus and the so-called Complutensian, though he used that of Erasmus chiefly.
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Regia ", because it was issued under the auspices of Philip II, depends largely on the" Complutensian "for the texts which the latter had published.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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"In the margin of this edition [his fourth] Stephanus entered variant readings taken from the Complutensian edition and also 14 manuscripts, one of which is thought to have been Codex D."
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So it was in the copy of the Complutensian edition, which
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965
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All which things prefer the Complutensian, Syrian, and Arabic, before the Vulgar reading of this place.
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965
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