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Many polyglot Bibles are monumental examples of both scholarship and size. Some were produced in a pocket-sized volume, as with this small book of Biblical excerpts from 1554. Here, the selections are presented in four parallel columns of Greek, a literal Latin translation, the Latin Vulgate, and Hebrew. It was printed by Martin Le Jeune, a Parisian printer known for his elegant impressions in Hebrew and Greek type. We do not know who its earliest owners might have been, but it eventually came to be owned by William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, and was passed down in the family to great grandson Granville Penn, himself a Biblical scholar, who bequeathed it to his daughter, Isabella Maria Penn.