From: Ben Crick (ben.crick@argonet.co.uk)
Date: Sun May 02 1999 - 14:23:29 EDT
On Fri 30 Apr 99 (22:11:27), thmann@juno.com wrote:
> I would be interested to know what NT manuscripts stand behind Jerome's
> Vulgate. Thanks.
Dear Theo,
The Biblia Sacra Vulgata is a conservative revision, with corrections
restricted to those which would alter the sense of passages. He compared
Old Latin MSS with the most ancient MSS in Greek that he had. He found
many harmonisings and assimilations between the Gospels, and so he tried
to restore the actual words written by the Evangelists in the Gospels.
It is thought that he used Sinaiticus in the Gospels to revise the European
Old Latin, and Alexandrinus to revise Acts. He did much less work on the
Epistles.
Hort suggested that Brixianus was used by Jerome. It is 90% the same as
the Vulgate; but Brixianus is s Gothic revision of the Vulgate and is
newer (6th century). The view of Burkitt and Souter is that Jerome used
Codex Veronensis. Souter thought that Luke 15:11ff is taken from Codex
Vercellensis.
The Church at Rome used Greek rather than Latin as the ecclesiastical
language until about 200. After 200 Rome took over the African texts
and made their own translations. JH Ropes says that the European text
is a revision of the African Old Latin with the help of an Alexandrian
Greek MS. Codex Bobiensis is the best, but only contains Mark 8-16 and
Matthew 1-15. Sanday in the ICC established that Bobiensis was identical
to the text used by Cyprian in 250. Codex Palatinus is a little later
and contains all the Gospels, and is more European
After 383 the Vulgate, the 'New Latin Bible', was in use alongside the Old
Latin. Augustine used both. This went on until about 1000, by which time
the Vulgate reigned supreme. In 1546 the Council of Trent made it the
official standard version; but by then it had begun to show variations
from the original Jerome. The Northumbrian MSS of the Vulgate are the best,
dating from the Roman Mission in the 7th century (taken there by Abbot
Ceolfrid of Wearmouth).
That's all I can dig out at the moment. No doubt someone will know of
more recent research.
ERRWSQE
Ben
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