Vulgata Sixtina

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The Vulgata Sixtina was a Latin edition of the Bible from 1590, prepared on the orders of Pope Sixtus V. It was the first edition of the Latin Vulgate authorised by a pope, but its official recognition was short-lived.

Three committees

Vulgata Sixtina

On 8 April 1546 the Council of Trent required that Vulgate it be printed quam emendatissime (fewest possible faults).^[] There was no authoritative edition at that time.^[]

The first committee was appointed by Pope Pius IV in 1561 to undertake the work, but the committee worked slowly and ineffectively. The second committee was appointed by Pope Pius V in 1569 (Congregatio pro emendatione Bibliorum), with four Cardinals Marcus Antonius, Sirleto, Madrutius, and Antonio Carafa.^[]^[] The committee was resolved under the Pope Gregory XIII.^[]

The Pope Sixtus V had appointed the 3rd committee of scholars to continue cease work. The committee was under the presidency of Cardinal Carafa. The work was prepared on the basis of the edition of Robertus Stephanus from Louvain (1583) and good manuscripts were used as authorities, including notably Codex Amiatinus.^[] Carafa presented the result of their work, in the beginning of 1589, but Sixtus rejected their work and in 18 months prepared another text he corrected to agree with the Greek and Hebrew,^[] He used Codex Carafianus,^[] but it was hurried into print and suffered from many printing errors.^[] In May 1590 the completed work was issued from the press in three volumes.^[]

The full title of edition was: Biblica Sacra Vulgatae editionnis, ad Concilii Tridenti praescriptum emendata et a Sixto V P. M. recognita et approbata.^[] The edition was preceded by the Bull Aeternus Ille (1 March 1590), in which the Pope declared the authenticity of the new Bible, the Vulgata Sixtina.^[] This edition was short-lived, because of its textual inaccuracy.^[]

On 27 August Sixtus V died, and on 5 September the college of Cardinals stopped all further sales, bought and destroyed as many copies as possible.^[] The official pretext for this action was the inaccuracy of its printing, it is thought that the attack against the edition had been instigated by the Jesuits, whom Sixtus had offended by putting one of Bellarmine's books on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.^[]

Vulgata Sixtina is cited only in some present critical editions and it is designated by siglum vg^s.^[]

Some differences to the Louvain edition

In Book of Genesis 40-50 43 corrections were made (on the basis of Codex Carafianus):^[]

40,8 – nunquam ] numquam

40,14 – tibi bene ] bene tibi

41,13 – quicquid ] quidquid

41,19 – nunquam ] numquam

41,20 – pecoribus ] prioribus

41,39 – nunquid ] numquid

41,55 – quicquid ] quidquid

42,4 – quicquam ] quidquam

42,11 – quicquam ] quidquam

42,13 – at illi dixerunt ] at illi

42,22 – nunquid ] numquid

42,38 – adversitatis ] adversi

43,3 – denuntiavit ] denunciavit

43,5 – denuntiavit ] denunciavit

43,7 – nunquid ] numquid

43,19 – dispensatorem ] dispensatorem domus

43,30 – lachrymae ] lacrymae

44,4 – ait surge ] surge

44,29 – maerore ]moerore

45,13 – nuntiate ] nunciate

45,20 – dimittatis ] demittatis

45,20 – auicquam ] quidquam

45,23 – tantundem ] tantumdem

45,23 – addens eis ] addens et

45,26 – nuntiaverunt ] nunciaverunt

46,10 – Chananitidis ] Chanaanitidis

46,10 – Cahath ] Caath

46,13 – Simeron ] Semron

46,16 – Sephon ] Sephion

46,16 – Aggi ] Haggi

46,16 – et Esebon et Suni ] et Suni et Esebon

46,17 – Jamma ] Jamme

46,22 – quatuordecim ] quattuordecim

46,26 – cunctaeque ] cunctae

46,28 – nuntiaret ] nunciaret

46,28 – et ille occurreret ] et occurreret

46,31 – nuntiabo ] nunciabo

47,1 – nuntiavit ] nunciavit

47,9 – peregrinationis vitae meae ] peregrinationis meae

47,24 – quatuor ] quattuor

47,31 – Dominum ] Deum

48,1 – nuntiatum ] nunciatum

49,1 – annuntiem ] annunciem

Among these 43 corrections, 31 has only grammar meaning, and 6 of them are correct.^[]

Changes in versification

In 30 first chapters of the Book of Genesis following changes were made:^[]

1 – 31 . . . . 29

2 – 25 . . . . 20

3 – 24 . . . . 20

4 – 26 . . . . 26

5 – 31 . . . . 30

6 – 22 . . . . 19

7 – 24 . . . . 19

8 – 22 . . . . 20

9 – 29 . . . . 24

10 – 32 . . . . 26

11 – 32 . . . . 31

12 – 20 . . . . 18

13 – 18 . . . . 18

14 – 24 . . . . 16

15 – 21 . . . . 17

16 – 16 . . . . 14

17 – 27 . . . . 25

18 – 33 . . . . 37

19 – 38 . . . . 34

20 – 18 . . . . 16

21 – 34 . . . . 31

22 – 24 . . . . 18

23 – 20 . . . . 15

24 – 67 . . . . 54

25 – 34 . . . . 27

26 – 34 . . . . 26

27 – 46 . . . . 33

28 – 22 . . . . 14

29 – 35 . . . . 31

30 – 43 . . . . 36

References

1. Berger, Samuel (1879). La Bible au seizième siècle: Étude sur les origines de la critique biblique. Paris. p. 147 ff. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
2. Bruce M. Metzger, The Early Versions of the New Testament, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1977, p. 348.
3. Carlo Vercellone, Variae lectiones Vulgatae Latinae Bibliorum editionis, Romae 1860, p. XXII.
4. Quentin, Henri (1922). Mémoire sur l'établissement du texte de la Vulgate. Rome: Desclée. p. 168. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
5. Eberhard Nestle & William Edie, Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament (New York 1901), p. 127.
6. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 2 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 64.
7. Pierre Gandil, La Bible latine : de la Vetus latina à la Néo-Vulgate
8. Carlo Vercellone, Variae lectiones Vulgatae Latinae Bibliorum editionis, Romae 1860, p. XXX.
9. Petr Pokorný, Ulrich Heckel, Einleitung in das Neue Testament: seine Literatur und Theologie im Überblick, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007, p. 101.
10. Eugeniusz Dąbrowski, Prolegomena do Nowego Testamentu, wyd. 3, Księgarnia św. Wojciecha, Poznań 1959, s. 126.
11. VULGATE – International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
12. Bruce M. Metzger, The Early Versions of the New Testament, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1977, pp. 348-349
13. K. Aland (ed.), E. Nestle, (1991). Novum Testamentum Graece (ed. 26). Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. p. 19*. [NA26]
14. Quentin, Henri (1922). Mémoire sur l'établissement du texte de la Vulgate. Rome: Desclée. pp. 184–185. http://www.archive.org/stream/mmoiresurlta01quenuoft#page/184/mode/2up. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
15. Quentin, Henri (1922). Mémoire sur l'établissement du texte de la Vulgate. Rome: Desclée. p. 185. http://www.archive.org/stream/mmoiresurlta01quenuoft#page/184/mode/2up. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
16. Quentin, Henri (1922). Mémoire sur l'établissement du texte de la Vulgate. Rome: Desclée. pp. 189. Retrieved 2011-01-14.

Carlo Vercellone, Variae lectiones Vulgatae Latinae Bibliorum editionis, Romae 1860.
Paul Maria Baumgarten, Die Vulgata Sixtina von 1590 und ihre Einführungsbulle Aktenstücke und Untersuchungen, Münster i. W. Aschendorff 1911.

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