119. The art which the Germans had invented was applied in
Italy to the profane writers of Rome and Greece. The
original Greek of the New Testament was published about the
same time (A.D. 1514, 1516, 1520) by the industry of Erasmus
and the munificence of Cardinal Ximenes. The Complutensian
Polyglot cost the cardinal 50,000 ducats. See Mattaire,
Annal. Typograph tom. ii. p. 2-8,125-133; and Wetstein,
Prolegomena, p. 116-127.