Notes & Queries Archive
REPLY1850

Complutensian Polyglot

"Mr. JEBB" asks (No. 14. p. 213.), "In what review or periodical did there appear a notice of the supposed discovery of the MSS. from which the *Complutensian Polyglot* was compiled?" He will find an article on this subject in the *Irish Ecclesiastical Journal* for April, 1847; from which I learn that there was a previous article, by Dr. James Thomson, one of the agents of the British and Foreign Bible Society, in the *Biblical Review*, a London periodical publication. Dr. Thomson, if I understand the matter aright, professed to have found at Madrid the MSS., so long supposed to have been lost…

Topics: Complutensian Polyglot, Biblical Manuscripts

Locations: London, Madrid