The Bible and its Transmission : being an Historical and
Bio- graphical View of the Hebrew and Greek Texts; and the Greek, Latin, and other Versions of the Bible (both MSS. and printed) prior to the Reformation. By Walter Arthur Copinger, LL.D. (Sotheran. 105s. net.)—This magnificent volume is a credit to all concerned in its production. Professor Copinger has brought together with infinite labour bibliographical details about the manuscripts of our Old and New Testaments, including the Septuagint, and also their printed editions down to the Revised Version recently issued from the University Presses. He has added a treatise on the Vulgate and other Latin versions, and another treatise on the various pre-Reformation translations into other languages. The work has been printed at the Clarendon Press, which is by a long way the head of the printing presses of the country, from type presented to the University by Bishop Fell. It is embellished with twenty-eight collotype reproductions of pages from the great codices, including the Alexandrine and Sinitic, and from printed copies beginning with the famous Maurine Bible. The reader rev here oompare the types of Aldus, Froben, Stephanus, and Elzevir, and between the beauties of Aldine and Elzevir letters he may be content to suspend his judgment. He will not fail to notice how much more beautiful is the first Elzevir, which is printed in paragraph, than the second, which is divided into verses. The book is made complete by an index, extending to some fifteen hundred references.
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