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Beza’s New Testament editions online

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When I wrote my dissertation, I had to go to university libraries in the Netherlands to consult Beza’s five maior New Testament editions. Nowadays, most of his editions can be found online, and some even in surprisingly good quality (though without OCR of the Latin texts, let alone the Greek). Especially the Swiss e-rara project is a rich source of 16th-century books.
1582 edition; title page (part)
In numbering the editiones maiores, I follow Beza’s own numbering, which includes as the first edition the New Testament part of Robertus Stephanus’ Latin Bible with annotations. There is no Greek text in this edition, only Beza’s “new translation” together with the Vulgate, and of course his annotations.

Major editions
11556/57: GB and GB (a better copy).
21565: e-rara.
31582: e-rara.
41588/1589: CSNTM; IA; GB.
51598: e-rara.

Special cases
1559: unauthorised Basel edition: e-rara; ULB Sachsen-Anhalt.
1563: Beza’s Responsio against Castellio (referred to on the title page of the 1565 edition): e-rara.
1565: a special copy with Beza’s own handwritten notes in preparation of the third edition (MHR O4 cd (565) a): réro.
1569: Tremellius’ Syriac NT, with Beza’s Greek and Latin text included: e-rara (both volumes); GB (Matt-John).
1594: the Annotationes printed separately: e-rara.
1642: the Cambridge edition, with Camerarius’ commentary: EEBO (limited access).

Minor editions
11565: e-rara.
21567: e-rara.
31580: e-rara; GB.
41590: e-rara
51604: GB (vol. 1); GB (vol. 2).

Other
1575: a Latin-only edition which introduces Chapter summaries: GB.

Suggestions for additions are welcome in the comments; this post will be updated when new sources are found.

Updates
20 May 2013: GB link to 41588 added; category “Other” and the 1575 edition added (HT: Emanuel Contac).
19 August 2013: second GB link to 11556 added.
18 September 2013: e-rara link to 1569 Syriac edition added.



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