medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Rochelle Altman wrote:
>
> "The" Vulgate did not exist until after the
> Council of Trent of 1546. And if it had not been
> for the great polyglots probably would not have
> been commanded. There were more than 12,000
> Latin versions -- complete or partial -- floating
> around at the time and with lots of variations.
>
Well, yes - but the Sixtine Vulgate of 1590 was promptly replaced by "the"
Clementine Vulgate (1592 and subsequent editions). I say "subsequent
editions" cagily, because it is not clear to me what changed over time
(particularly in the 20th century). There is a project to produce an online
(and downloadable) version of the Clementine Vulgate:
http://vulsearch.sourceforge.net/gettext.html
Unfortunately, this is from a late (1946) edition. This has
"re-classicised" spelling ('caelum' rather than 'coelum', although it still
has 'quotidianum' rather than 'cotidianum'.) The accompanying
'Douay-Rheims' translation is a (late) version of Challoner's revision, and
the 'Stuttgart Vulgate' is the usual defective text.
It's a pity we don't have the actual 1592 text, as that would probably be a
good approximation to a typical late medieval version.
John Briggs
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