The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired a rare Plantin Polyglot Bible, containing parallel texts in Hebrew, Greek, Syriac and Aramaic with translations and commentary in Latin.

"The Plantin Polyglot Bible is the Ransom Center’s single most important rare book acquisition in the past two decades," said Ransom Center Director Thomas F. Staley.

It joins a sizable collection of Bibles at the Ransom Center, including one of the 48 surviving copies of the Gutenberg Bible, a 1476 Jenson illuminated Bible on vellum, several copies of the original King James Version of the Bible, and two Coverdale Bibles, the first complete English translation of the Bible.