Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta = Novum Testamentum
| Novum Testamentum | |
 Title page from Novum Testamentum, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary. | |
| Published | Londini: Impensis R. Knaplock, J. Tonson, & J. Watts |
| Date | 1728 |
| Edition | ad Editionem Buckianam |
| Language | Greek |
| Pages | [4], 624 p., [1] leaf of plates |
| Desc. | Octavo (20 cm.) |
| Location | Shelf B-1 |
The second part of the Christian biblical canon, the New Testament consists of several texts originally written in Koine Greek. Historians do not know when the first compilation of of the New Testament occurred, nor do they know who compiled it.[1] However like other living languages, the Greek language has developed over time. Therefore various translations have been completed over the centuries to make it easier for Greek speakers to understand Holy Scripture.[2] Translations of the Old Testament, which is the other part of the Christian Bible, have been completed for similar reasons.[3]
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
There is no doubt that Wythe owned this title—a copy of the 1728 edition of "Novum testamentum. Gr. 8vo. Lond." at the Library of Congress includes George Wythe's bookplate. Thomas Jefferson also listed "Novum Testamentum" in his inventory of Wythe's Library, noting that he kept the volume himself. He later sold it to the Library of Congress in 1815.[4] Unsurprisingly, both George Wythe's Library[5] on LibraryThing and the Brown Bibliography[6] list the 1728 edition. Based on the copy at the Library of Congress, the Wolf Law Library purchased the same edition of Kaines Diathekes Apanta.
Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy
Bound in contemporary leather. Double gilt rules line edges of boards and frame five bands on spine. Inscription of former owner , "W. Gage, Feby. 23rd, 1813" on front free endpaper.
Images of the library's copy of this book are available on Flickr. View the record for this book in William & Mary's online catalog.
See also
- The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments
- Jefferson Inventory
- Hē Kainē Diathēkē. Novum Testamentum
- Tēs Kainēs Diathēkēs Hapanta = Novum Testamentum
- Hē Palaia Diatheke Kata tous Hebdomenkonta = Vetus Testamentum Græcum
- Psaltērion Psalterium
- Wythe's Library
References
- ↑ Bruce M. Metzger "History of Editing the Greek New Testament," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 131, no. 2 (1987): 148.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 2:99 [no.1479].
- ↑ LibraryThing, s.v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on November 19, 2013.
- ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.
