Latin Bible

[eichenb2]

I just wanted to get opinions on which Latin Bible to buy. Also, if you could recommend where to purchase it from. For example, is the Clementine Vulgate better that the Nova Vulgata and, if so, why.

 

[tmancath]

I just wanted to get opinions on which Latin Bible to buy. Also, if you could recommend where to purchase it from. For example, is the Clementine Vulgate better that the Nova Vulgata and, if so, why.

I have the Clementine edition you can get a paperback edition from lulu.com. Michael Tweedale is the one who did this under Biblia Sacra Juxta Vulgatam Clementinam or www.baroniuspress.com has one with the Douay-Rheims and the Clementine Vulgate side by side. The Clementine Vulgate is in my opinion (only opinion) is more accurate than the Nova Vulgata which is on the Vatican’s website. I don’t believe it is in print. Beware there is a false Vulgate Biblia Sacra Vulgata. This is done by Stuttgart, Protestant Bible Society in Germany, therefore should be avoided altogether.

 

[eichenb2]

I have the Clementine edition you can get a paperback edition from lulu.com. Michael Tweedale is the one who did this under Biblia Sacra Juxta Vulgatam Clementinam or www.baroniuspress.com has one with the Douay-Rheims and the Clementine Vulgate side by side. The Clementine Vulgate is in my opinion (only opinion) is more accurate than the Nova Vulgata which is on the Vatican’s website. I don’t believe it is in print. Beware there is a false Vulgate Biblia Sacra Vulgata. This is done by Stuttgart, Protestant Bible Society in Germany, therefore should be avoided altogether.

This is a great help. I was, actually, on the verge of purchasing the “false Vulgate Biblia Sacra Vulgata”. Also, is the text and translation in the books at www.lulu.com authorized?

 

[tmancath]

This is a great help. I was, actually, on the verge of purchasing the “false Vulgate Biblia Sacra Vulgata”. Also, is the text and translation in the books at www.lulu.com authorized?

This particular edition from lulu has an approval from Bishop’s Conference of England and Wales. This is an accordance to Code of Canon Law Code 825 I believe. There is another one on lulu from Ron Conte in different volumes, but has not nihil obstat, imprimatur, imprini potest or Bishop’s approval

 

[Ron_Conte]

This particular edition from lulu has an approval from Bishop’s Conference of England and Wales. This is an accordance to Code of Canon Law Code 825 I believe. There is another one on lulu from Ron Conte in different volumes, but has not nihil obstat, imprimatur, imprini potest or Bishop’s approval

I don’t offer a Latin Bible in print at lulu.com or anywhere else.
I was a proofreader on the 2005 Tweedale edition.
My own light edit of the Clementine Vulgate is online only:
sacredbible.org/vulgate2009/index.htm

My translation of the Latin Bible into English is available at lulu.com, and also online:
sacredbible.org/catholic/index.htm
published without approbation, however…

Imprimi potest is only given by a religious superior for a book written by a member of his religious order; it doesn’t apply to Bible translations, nor even to books written by anyone other than a member of a religious order.

Individual Bishops are no longer permitted under Canon Law to approve of Bible translations, only Bishops’ Conferences and the Holy See may do so.

Also, the nihil obstat and the imprimatur are no longer used for Bible editions, neither for the Latin, nor for the vernacular. So no one should expect to see any of these approbations in a recent Bible edition.

The RSV CE2, published since the new Code of Canon Law, says only:
“With ecclesiastical approval of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops”

The Tweedale edition has this wording:
“The Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales gives its approval
to the publication of Biblia Sacra juxta Vulgatam Clementinam.
Published with approbation. CBCEW, 9th January 2006.”

 

[tee_eff_em]

A little pricier than lulu/Tweedale, the American Classical League offers a Clementine Vulgate by the Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, Madrid.

In addition to being hardcover, it includes cross-references and other supporting materials not available (I think?) from Tweedale.

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[Ron_Conte]

Perhaps the most useful edition of the Latin Bible is here:
sacredbible.org/vulgate1822/index.htm
online for free, scans of every page of the Leander van Ess edition
which compares the 1590 Pope Sixtus V edition to the
1592, 93, 98 Pope Clement VIII editions, each edition of which
was published by the Holy See.

The 1861 Vercellone edition and the 1914 Hetzenauer edition is available here:
sacredbible.org/
again with scans of every page. And the 1914 edition is also available
in an online searchable text version.

All these editions are free, online, and public domain.