Erasmus has been fresh out of Vulgates for the last several months. I've
called repeatedly.
JBS
>For what it's worth, Erasmus Books in South Bend regularly carries them.
>Although I paid $50 about four years ago, I am sure the price has risen.
>If anyone wants the phone number I will supply it.
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>Arlene
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>At 08:18 PM 9/18/98 -0400, you wrote:
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>>Greetings!
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>>><...I was wondering if anyone knew where I could pick
>>><up a Latin Vulgate Bible on a student's budget. I have
>>><had terrible luck finding one.>
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>>Sounds like the dilemma I posted earlier this year, which led me to some of
>>the on-line Vulgates (including that wonderful Bible Browser site).
>>U of Toronto bookstore carries them for about $90 Canadian. Someone on this
>>list suggested I try Blackwell's, but I couldn't find anything modestly
>>priced there, either.
>>
>>>But maybe someone on this list has an answer to a simple
>>>question that's bugged the hell out of me in twenty years
>>>in the book bidness:
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>>>WHERE _*DID*_ ALL THE VULGATES GO???
>>>
>>>In my modest career I've not come across more than a dozen,
>>>half of those pre-1800.
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>>No kidding. I check my local used bookstores and any other one I happen to
>>wander into frequently, and I've yet to see *one*.
>>
>>
>>Susan
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>Arlene Catherine Hilfer
>Assistant Professor of English
>Hanover College
>Box 890
>Hanover, Indiana 47243
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