The _London Polyglot_ was the fourth great Bible of the kind which had been given to the world.[307] In 1517[308] the _Complutensian Polyglot_ had been printed at Alcala, at the charges of Cardinal Ximenes, in six volumes, containing the Sacred Text, in Hebrew, Latin, Greek and Chaldean, including an “Apparatus” consisting of a Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon, etc. This work will always be famous, if for no other reason, for the grand, bold Greek type in which the Septuagint and New Testament are printed. In 1572 the _Antwerp Polyglot_ of Arias Montanus was printed, in eight magnificent volumes, by Christopher Plantin. It comprises the whole of the Complutensian texts, with the addition of the Syriac, and an Apparatus containing Lexicons and Grammars of Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac and Greek. In 1645 the _Paris Polyglot_, edited by Le Jay and others, was published in ten sumptuous volumes. It comprises the whole of the texts of the _Antwerp Polyglot_, with the addition of Arabic and Samaritan. Owing to the abrupt completion of this work, no Apparatus was included of any description. This work was seventeen years in the press. The _London Polyglot_, as we shall observe, added to the languages used in the _Paris Polyglot_, the Persian and Ethiopic, with an Appendix containing additional Targums, also a complete “Apparatus” and Prolegomena, with alphabetical tables of the various languages employed, and others besides. {170} The following table will show clearly the gradual advances made by the four great _Polyglots_ in respect of the versions they comprise[309]:―