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Excerpt from The Dublin Review, Vol. 139: Wilfrid Ward
Hence the Benedictine editors opened their collection of the Saint's writings with his Vulgate; and Vallarsi, to whom we are indebted for a still better recension, admirable in type as in the more serious care of text and notes, decided by their example that he must also reproduce it. He made use for this end of the celebrated Codex of Verona, his native city, which has Psalms and Gospels in Old Latin.* But how many others he would now have to consult before he might call his edition critical, students like M. Berger will tell us. It appears that some eight thousand manuscripts of the Latin Scriptures are known to exist. On collation of a few among these and early printed Bibles our present text, the Clementine of I 592, is founded. The lately-attempted revisions, which do not travel outside the New Testament, are associated with the names of Tischendorf, Hetzenauer, Wordsworth and White. Anything like a complete and satisfactory screening of the materials extant would include a study of quotations in medieval Latin literature from the fifth century down to the time of Stephen Langton and Roger Bacon. Clearly there is no lack of opportunity here for scholars who know not how to dispose of their morn ings in the country! Shall a Protestant Bishop, such as Dr Wordsworth, have spent his leisure on our Vulgate, and enthusiastic young Catholics be wanting to take up the task he left undone? Abermt Dem! It is a challenge which we are bound to accept. And in proportion as we appreciate St Jerome's labours, so much the more shall we be encouraged to make the fruits of them our own.
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