Polyglot Bibles had existed since at least the third century, but none could compare with the four “great” polyglot Bibles of the early modern peiod: the Complutensian (Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 1514-1517), Antwerp (1569-1572), Paris (1628-1645), and London (1654-1657) polyglots. These editions – all of them printed in large, folio-sized editions numbering between 6 and 8 volumes – are the printing equivalent of cathedrals: expressions of devotion to God through the highest level of intellectual and technical mastery. In them, readers encountered the cutting edge of biblical scholarship and printing technology in books that were meant to bring honor and glory to the nations that produced them.