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until 1592, under Clement VIII., that the revised edition appeared. The Clementine edition is the standard in the Roman Catholic Church, in which this Latin translation takes precedence of the Hebrew and Greek originals, as the snpport of doctrine and guide of life.

The materials for a more critical edition of the Vulgate than the Clementine arc very abundant. There are numer- ous MSS., and much labour has already been expended upon the work. The most famous of these MSS. arc (a) Codex Amiatinus, from the Cistercian Monastery of Monte Amiatino, in Tuscany, now in the Laurcntian Li- brary at Florence; it contains the Old and New Testa- ments almost complete, dates from 541, and is the oldest and best MS. The New Testament was edited by Tisch- endorf, Lcipsic, 1850, 2d cd. 1854, and by Tregclles (in his edition of the Greek Testament, with the variations of the Clementine text), (b) Codex Fuldensis, in the Abbey of Fulda, Hessc-Cassel ; contains the New Testament ; dates from 546. Collated by Lachmann for his large edition of the Greek Testament, and edited by E. Ranke, Marburg and Lcipsic, 1808. (r) Codex Forojuliensis (sixth century), at Friuli; Matthew, Luke, and John published by Bianchini, Evany. Quadruplet, Appendix. Part of the same MS. is at Prague (Pragcnsis). (rf) Codex Harlcian. 1775 (seventh century), of the Gospels, partially collated by Gricsbach, Symb. Crit. vol. i. (e) Codex Toletanus, at Toledo ; writ- ten in Gothic letters in the eighth century ; collated by the Sixtine correctors and by Vcrccllone. It contains both Testaments. Its readings are given by Bianchini, V indictee Canon. Scripturarum, Rome, 1740.

The best edition of the variations is that of Carlo Vcr- ccllone, I'arite Ltctiones Vuly. Lat. Bibliorum Edilionit,

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