Vulgate

The Vulgate Bible is an early 5th century translation of the Bible into Latin made by St. Jerome on the orders of Pope Damasus I. It takes its name from the phrase versio vulgata, "the common (i.e., popular) version" (cf. Vulgar Latin), and was written in an everyday Latin used in conscious distinction to the elegant Ciceronian Latin of which Jerome was a master. The Vulgate was designed to be both more accurate and easier to understand than its predecessors. It was the first, and for many centuries the only, Christian Bible translation that translated the Old Testament directly from the Hebrew original rather than indirectly from the Greek Septuagint.

External links

• The Clementine Vulgate, searchable
• Biblia Vulgata Stuttgart edition, flanked by Douay-Rheims and King James Versions
• Stuttgart Vulgate, with Douay-Rheims Version, Gallican Psalter and complete Daniel
• Nova Vulgata, from the Vatican