Novum Testamentum – Henry Hammond – 1698 | Vulgate Bible with Commentary

Novum Testamentum Domini nostri Jesu Christi is a rare 1698 edition of the Vulgate New Testaments Bible by Henry Hammond includes extensive annotations of the scripture, as well as the Hammond ‘Paraphrase’, translated into the Vulgate Latin by Jean Leclerc.

According to Darlow and Moule:

“Henry Hammond was appointed President of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1643, and in 1647 was allowed to attend Charles I as his chaplain. A voluminous writer, he is chiefly known by his Practical Catechism and his Paraphrase. The latter ‘is a great work and gives Hammond a claim to the title of father of English Biblical criticism.’”

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Novum Testamentum Domini nostri Jesu Christi: ex versione Vulgata, cum paraphrasi & adnotationibus Henrici Hammondi
• Author(s): Henry Hammond
• Contributor(s): Jean Le Clerc (Translator; Editor)
• Publisher: Amstelodami: apud Georgium Galletum
• Edition: 1698 edition
• Format: (4to), 2 volumes in 1
• Binding: Vellum binding, marbled boards
• Size:  in ×  in ( cm ×  cm)
• Collation: [8], 374, [2]; 511, [13]
• Illustrations:
• Contents Include:
  • list one more bullets of prefatory texts, highlights, key
• Provenance: bookplate – St. Mark’s Library,  The General Theological Seminary;
• Reference(s): Darlow & Moule 6250; Wing H 576

Condition:

Good. Bound in vellum with marbled boards, showing rubbing and cracking to the covers. The text block remains secure and complete.

Why Collect This?

• Early Amsterdam printing of Hammond’s influential New Testament commentary
• Translation and editorial work of Jean Le Clerc

Item Number: #29233