medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture John Briggs wrote in part: >Well, yes - but the Sixtine Vulgate of 1590 was promptly replaced by "the" >Clementine Vulgate (1592 and subsequent editions).... >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. At the risk of sounding like a stuck record, I'll chime in here with a note that Gallica has the Sixtine Vulgate: http://gallica.bnf.fr/Catalogue/noticesInd/FRBNF37244823.htm Unlike many of the image files of early imprints, this one is quite clear. Unfortunately Gallica doesn't appear to have any of the immediately following Clementine editions (1592/93/98). There are however a good handful of other 16th c. editions, the earliest of which I saw is dated 1534: http://gallica.bnf.fr/Catalogue/noticesInd/FRBNF37231285.htm A particularly attractive one has woodcuts by Holbein: http://gallica.bnf.fr/Catalogue/noticesInd/FRBNF37304186.htm Use the Recherche feature at the main site to search for Title: Biblia sacra to find at least some of the early Bibles; another approach that might turn up other titles of interest is to use Recherche -> Sujet -> B -> Bible, which returns 107 items. John -- *** John McChesney-Young ** panis~at~pacbell.net ** Berkeley, California, U.S.A. *** ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html