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patrick457
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Not exactly relevant to the discussion as it is now, but in case somebody brings this up:
It’s a common misconception that the ‘Vulgate’ part of the Vulgate means that the work was translated into Vulgar Latin. The term versio vulgata originally meant ‘common(ly-used) version’: in St. Jerome’s time, this referred to only one thing: the Greek Septuagint (which was, after all, the “common version” of the Scriptures among Christians) and by extension, its translations into Latin. The term itself is a calque of the Greek phrase koinē ekdoseis. This is the sense in which St. Augustine and even St. Jerome himself understood and use the phrase, and the sense the term was used down to the Middle Ages.
St. Jerome’s translations originally never had a specific name, so when people had to refer to them they usually used general terms such as ‘our books’ (codices nostri) or ‘our version’ (editio nostra). Friar Roger Bacon in the 13th century is usually credited as the first person to apply the adjective vulgata to Jerome’s translations - which had, after all, now become the ‘common version’ among Western Christians at the time even though they were now mostly speaking Vulgar Latin’s offspring - though his personal usage was inconsistent as he also apparently used it in its original meaning (the Septuagint and its translations). Gradually however the name stuck, and Trent’s reference to the vetus et vulgata editio further cemented this usage.
It’s a common misconception that the ‘Vulgate’ part of the Vulgate means that the work was translated into Vulgar Latin. The term versio vulgata originally meant ‘common(ly-used) version’: in St. Jerome’s time, this referred to only one thing: the Greek Septuagint (which was, after all, the “common version” of the Scriptures among Christians) and by extension, its translations into Latin. The term itself is a calque of the Greek phrase koinē ekdoseis. This is the sense in which St. Augustine and even St. Jerome himself understood and use the phrase, and the sense the term was used down to the Middle Ages.
St. Jerome’s translations originally never had a specific name, so when people had to refer to them they usually used general terms such as ‘our books’ (codices nostri) or ‘our version’ (editio nostra). Friar Roger Bacon in the 13th century is usually credited as the first person to apply the adjective vulgata to Jerome’s translations - which had, after all, now become the ‘common version’ among Western Christians at the time even though they were now mostly speaking Vulgar Latin’s offspring - though his personal usage was inconsistent as he also apparently used it in its original meaning (the Septuagint and its translations). Gradually however the name stuck, and Trent’s reference to the vetus et vulgata editio further cemented this usage.