A full account of tlie editions of the Vulg is given by jVIasch (Le Long), liibliotheca Sdcra (1778-90). The variations between the Sixtine and Clementine editions were collated by 'i'. .laincs. helium I'<ipii!c,s. (\inr<u-di<i J)i<vors ( Lond. ItiOO), and more completely, with a col- lation of the Clementine editions, by M. de liukonto]), [mx de Luce, iii, 315 sq. Vercellone, correcting earlier critics, reckons that the whole nutflber of variations be- tween the two revisions is about three thousand {Pro- k'ljii. xlviii, noUt).
VL Principal MSS. of the Vulgate. — These may brief- ly be enumerated as follows: 1. Cod. Amiatimi.'', of the middle of the (iih century, the oldest and best extant; in the Laurentian Library at Florence; it contains the
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Specimens of MSS. of the Vnlg.ite: 1. Brit. Mns. (Adrlil. .'140.^), Undnl ; 2. Stnnvhnrst (St. Cnthbei tV), Senii-lincial ; 3. Unr.eian (Brit. Mns. 1802), Cursive ; 4. Herefoicl Goi-ilels, Cursive.
Old Test., except Baruch, and the New Test.; the latter has been edited from it by Tischendorf (Leips. 1850, 4to). See Amiatine 1\L\msckipt.
2. Biblia Gothica Toletanm Ecclesia, of the 8th cen- tury, containing all the books except Baruch (Vercel- lone, \'(ir. Led. i, 84).
3. Cod. Careiisis, of the 8th century, if not earlier; contains the Old and New Test.; belongs to the monas- tery of La Cava, uear Salerno ; examined by Tischen- dorf.
4. Cod. Paiillinus, of the 9th century, wants Baruch; at Kome (Vercellone, loc. cit.).
5. Cod. Statianus hod. V'allicellanus, of the 9th cen- tury ; at Rome (Vercellone, I. c).
6. Cod. Ottobonianits, of the 8th century, contains the Octateiu^h ; in the Vatican (Vercellone, /. c).
7. Jiihlia ('(iroliiia, of thaihh century; wants Baruch, and the two last leaves are by a later hand ; in the can- tonal library at Zurich.
8. Hiblio Bamhurgensia, of the 9th century, wants the Apocalypse; it has .Jerome's Epistle lo Paulinus prefixed in large uncials, the rest of the Bl.S. is miims- cular; in this j\LS. 1 .John v. 7 appears (Kopp, Hil- der u. Schrifteu der Vo7"eit, i, 184).
9. Cod. Alcuini, of the 9th century, containing the Old and New Test, (except Baruch) ; supposed to be
that offered to Charlemagne at his coronation ; formerly in the possession of the re- cluses at jNIoutier de Grand- val. now in the British Mu- seum (Addit., 10, .54(i).
10. A ]\LS. on very clean parchment, probably of the 13th century; formerly at Altdorf, now at Erlangen (Niederer, Xachrichten zur Kirchen-, Gelehrten- uiid Bii- cher-Geschichte, x, 1"25).
11. A MS. of the 13th cen- tury, described in Eich- horn's Repertoiium, xvii, 183 sq.
12. Cod. Fuldensis, of the 6th century, contains the New Test., with the gospels in the form of a harmony; used by Lachmann in his edition of the Latin subjoin- ed to his (ireek New Test.; a specimen was pul)lished by h'anke (Marb. 18(!0. 4to).
13. Cod. Forojuliensis ; contains the four gospels; edited along with fragments of IMark's gospel from the Prague MS. (previously ed- ited by Dobrowski, Frag- menfum Pragense Ev. S. .Ifarci, etc. [Prag. 1778, 4to]), and other remains of the same gospel from MSS. preserved at Venice, by Bi- anchini. Append, ad Evan- gel. Quadi-vpl.
14. Cod. Sangellensis ; a (ineco-Lalin MS. of the 9th centurv ; contains the four
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£;ospels in Greek, with an intcrlinearv translation ; ed- ited in fac-simile by Eettig (Turin, 18o(!, 4t<>). There is another Cod. Siiiti/aUciisis containini; frafrments iit' the fi'ospels, of the 0th century, described by Tischcndorf in tlie Deutsche Zeltscrifl fur chrisll. WmenscktiJ}, 1857, No. 7, and esteemed by him of great vahie for the text of the Vulgate (Tischendorf, I'lvlcrj. p. 2-19 sq.). See Gall (Sr.) Manusckipt.
Besides these, many codices exist both in British and Continental libraries. See JManusckipts, Bihucal.
VII. Critical Value of the Latin Versions. — 1. In the Old Test. — The Latin Version, in its various forms, con- tributes, as has already been seen, more or less impor- tant materials for the criticism of the original texts of the Old and New Tests., and of tlie Common and Hexa- plaric texts of the Sept. The bearing of the Vulg. on the Sept. will not be noticed here, as the points involved in the inquiry more properly belong to the liistory of the Sept. Little, again, need be said on the value of the translation of Jerome for the textual criticism of tlie Old Test. As a whole, his work is a remarkable moimment of the substantial identity of the Hebrew text of the 4th century with the present Masoretic text; and the want of trustworthy materials for the exact determination of the Latin text itself has made all detailed investigation of his readings impossible or unsatisfactory. The passages which were qm)ted in the premature controversies of the I6th and 17th cen- turies, to prove the corruption of the Hebrew or Latin text, are commonly of little importance so far as the text is concerned. It will be enough to notice those only which are quoted by Whitaker, the worthy antag- onist of Bellarmine {pispatation on /Scripture [ed. Park. Soc.], p. 163 sq.).
Gen. i, 30, om. al! green herbs (in Vet. L.) : iii. 1.5, ipua conteret cnput tnnin. There seems [rood reason to be- lieve that the orighial readiiip; was ipse. Comp. Vercel- loiie, ad loc. See also (ilen. iv, 16.