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CHRISTOPHER PLANTIN, who must less be passed over by me in silence in this place, since from his workshop several editions of the Hebrew code came forth, at Antwerp, 1566, in two volumes 4to, in three volumes 8vo, in four volumes 12mo, which are considered accurate and are preferred to other Plantinian editions. Others followed, 1572, 1573, 1582, 1584, 1590. BAUMGARTEN, Nachrichten von merckwürdigen Büchern, Vol. II, p. 101, Vol. IV, p. 189; KNOCH, Nachrichten von der braunschweigischen Bibelsammlung, Vol. I, p. 73.

ELIAS HUTTER, who took care to have the Hebrew Bibles described in an elegant and capital form of letters, so that the servile letters might easily be distinguished from the radical ones and these might be added when they were omitted for grammatical reasons, at Hamburg, 1587, fol. Which, although they were not repeated, yet certain copies of them exist which, with a lying title, present the years 1588, 1595, 1603. Learned men differ on the dignity of this edition. This is certain, that the outcome was equal to neither the expectation of others; nor the plans of Hutter himself, which he had conceived: There came forth: A little book of letters, in which are contained some letters of great and learned men, by which judgment about the Elian Bibles, and his other works is briefly exposed, Frankfurt am Main, 1587, 8vo.

ZACHARIAS CRATO; or KRAFT, whose letters the Hebrew code was described with and came forth at Wittenberg, 1587, 4to. It is said to be expressed accurately to the Plantinian edition of the year 1566 KNOCH, Nachrichten von der braunschweigischen Bibelsammlung, Vol. I, p. 99; CLEMENT, Bibliothèque curieuse, historique et critique, Vol. IV, p. 37; WIDEKIND, Verzeichnis von raren Büchern, p. 534. and it is mentioned that already in 1586, by the order of the Elector of Saxony, Augustus, Hebrew Bibles had come forth from this workshop: See: BEYER, Arcana sacra bibliothecarum Dresdensium Sacred secrets of the Dresden libraries, p. 13.

JOACHIM and FRIEDRICH HARTMANN, who simultaneously published three Hebrew editions of Sacred Scripture at Frankfurt an der Oder in 1595 and 1596, differing in form and in the number of volumes,