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Octateuch   Listen
noun
Octateuch  n.  A collection of eight books; especially, the first eight books of the Old Testament. (R.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... still exists in the Cambridge University Library.[3] These forged Testaments were translated by Nicholas the Greek, and as no fewer than thirty-one copies of the Latin version still remain they must have had a good circulation.[4] Possibly the Greek Octateuch (Genesis to Ruth), now in the Bodleian Library, was imported into this country by Grosseteste or by somebody for him; at one time the manuscript was in the library of Christ Church, Canterbury.[5] Among other Greek ...
— Old English Libraries, The Making, Collection, and Use of Books • Ernest A. Savage



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