Bill lEast,
replying to Jim Bugslag's querry
about what kind of Vulgate he had (a "Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis
Sixti. V Pont. Max. jussu recognita et Clementis viii. auctoritate edita"),
answered:
<This is the familiar "Clementine" Vulgate, the usual edition, and based (as
<someone on the list has just pointed out) on 13th century Parisian MSS. So
<it's probably the best one can do by way of approximating to the "medieval
<Vulgate" - given the many and varied versions of that text in circulation.>
Previously Paul Chandler had said that the Clementine was close enough
for medievalist work (though I don't recall him saying that it was based on
"13th. c. Parisian MSS."), but is this last sentence--that it is "the best one
can do" [presumably short of something like the Stuttgart critical
ed.]--really
the case?
Paul?
Best from here,
Christopher
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