Publisher: London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1857–1859
Author: Samuel Prideaux Tregelles
Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, The Greek New Testament, edited from ancient authorities, with their various readings in full, and the Latin version of Jerome. London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1857–1859. Tregelles, a pious Christian with an incredible eye for detail and an acute memory, produced one of the earliest Greek New Testaments to depart from the Textus Receptus as its base text. He worked for years on the project, not realizing that the German scholar, Karl Lachmann, had already produced the first Greek New Testament to be based on the most ancient MSS, fathers, and versions. Nevertheless, Tregelles produced a critically-reconstructed Greek New Testament with a comprehensive apparatus, a feat that would be matched only by Tischendorf and von Soden. The copy of Tregelles’s work that CSNTM photographed was once owned by F. F. Bruce and is now in the possession of Tyndale House, Cambridge.
