Vulgate

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In 410 the monk Jerome produced a version of the Christian Bible in Latin, the Vulgate, which was to be the main edition in Europe until the sixteenth century.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

There are many Bibles in use beside the Vulgate.

From Time Magazine Archive

The encyclical encouraged new biblical research, literary criticism, and new translations from the original languages rather than from the sacrosanct Vulgate, the 5th century Latin translation by St. Jerome.

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By publishing the original Greek, the various early Latin translations, the St. Jerome Vulgate and thousands of footnotes, the work spreads 20 pages of Genesis to 600.

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In a Vulgate Bible, printed by him in 1544, he uses the A and C of the same alphabet, and also the following letters, with different subjects, viz.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis