Antwerp Polyglot Bible

The Biblia Regia, or Antwerp Polyglot (1569–72), is another important polyglot. The work, paid for by Philip II of Spain, was supervised by the Spanish scholar Benedictus Arias Montanus and printed in Antwerp by a well-known printer, Christophe Plantin.

…house and publisher of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible.

…eight-volume polyglot Bible (1569–72), the Biblia regia (“Royal Bible”). The firm was carried on for generations by the descendants of Plantin’s son-in-law, Joannes Moretus (Jan Moerentorf). In the Protestant north, the house of Elzevir occupied a similar position. After its founding by Louis Elzevir, who issued his first book in…