The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, the Sonnes of Jacob (1574 Gilby), book
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The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, the Sonnes of Jacob (1574) is a book of Anthony Gilby.
Abstract
"Translated out of G[reek]e into Latine by Robert Grosthed, sometime Bishop of Lyncolne, and Englyshed by A.G. With the testament of Iacob their father: prefixed and briefly gathered out of Genesis. 48. 49."
English translation of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs based on the 1242 Latin version by Robert Grosseteste; see Testamenta duodecim patriarcharum filiorum Jacob (1520 Grosseteste), book. The work, often reprinted, remained a standard version of the text for almost three centuries.
Editions
Published in London [England]: Iohn Daye, 1574. Often reprinted.