Vetus Latina & Codex's

[mawst]

Hello,

I’m faced with a very difficult task it seems, I’m trying to find out what books of the OT were included in pre-Vulgate Bibles, e.g. Vetus Latina.

Also, I’m interested if anyone can tell me which latin codex’s contained the deuteroanonical books, such as the Codex Bezae, or the Codex Bobiensis.

Dates, Names, and Deuterocanonical books please.

Thanks!

 

[Verbum]

Hi M,

The Vetus Latina is not the work of one man. It is the collection of the Latin versions made before the Vulgate. From the way St. Jerome talks about it, there is no reason to believe that the books of the Vetus Latina were different from those of the Vulgate. The Codex Bezae contains only the Gospels and the Acts in Greek and Latin. The Codex bobiensis is a VL manuscript that contains parts of Mark and Matthew.

There is no complete manuscript of the Vetus Latina. The following site will give you the manuscripts extent today. Some of them contain some parts of Old Latin and other parts of the Vulgate, as specified. itsee.bham.ac.uk/vetuslatina/manuscripts.htm

The Deuterocanonical books are contained in the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Bible that was done for Jews outside of Palestine and was later used by Christians. It is the bible of Eastern Christians right up to this day. The Latin trnaslation of the Deuteros are made from that Bible. The most complete manuscripts are Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Alexandrinus.

 

[Ron_Conte]

I’m faced with a very difficult task it seems, I’m trying to find out what books of the OT were included in pre-Vulgate Bibles, e.g. Vetus Latina.

In the early Church, there was no single book (or codex) that contained all the inspired books. The books were either separate, or a few books were gathered in one set, and a few in another set, and some individually. There is no Vetus Latina ‘Bible’.