[Greek New Testament, with Latin translation]. Novum
instrumentum omne. Edited, translated, and annotated by
Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. Basel: Johann Froben, March
1516. Edited by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466–1536),
this first edition of the Greek New Testament was compiled
primarily from late Byzantine manuscripts. The text also
presented Erasmus’s new Latin translation, a direct challenge to
the supremacy of St. Jerome’s fourth-century Latin Vulgate. In
four subsequent editions published between 1519 and 1535,
Erasmus corrected many misprints, improved his translation, and
increased the number and extent of his annotations. Martin
Luther utilized the landmark scholarship of Erasmus in his
German translation of the New Testament in 1522.