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| Language | Latin |
|---|---|
| Published | 1889–1954 |
TheOxford Vulgate (full title:Nouum Testamentum Domini nostri Jesu Christi latine, secundum editionem Sancti Hieronymi,tr.:Latin New Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ, according to the edition ofSaint Jerome) is acritical edition of theVulgate version of theNew Testament produced by scholars of theUniversity of Oxford, and published progressively between 1889 and 1954 in 3 volumes.
As a result of the inaccuracy of existing editions of the Vulgate, the delegates ofOxford University Press accepted in 1878 a proposal from classicistJohn Wordsworth to produce a critical edition of the New Testament.[1][2] This was eventually published asNouum Testamentum Domini nostri Iesu Christi Latine, secundum editionem sancti Hieronymi in three volumes between 1889 and 1954.[3] Along with Wordsworth andHenry Julian White, the completed work lists on its title pages Alexander Ramsbotham.[4]
As preliminary work to the full edition, Wordsworth published the text of certain important manuscripts in the seriesOld-Latin Biblical Texts, with the help ofWilliam Sanday, H. J. White (professor of New Testament studies atKing's College, London), and other scholars.[5] Wordsworth was consecratedBishop of Salisbury in 1885, and White (who becameDean of Christ Church, Oxford in 1920) assumed co-editorship of the edition, which was published in fascicles beginning with theGospel of Matthew in 1889;[6] the first volume, with an extensive epilogue discussing the history of the manuscripts and the text, was completed in 1898.[7]
Acts, forming the beginning of the third volume, was published in 1905.[8] In 1911, Wordsworth and White produced a smallereditio minor with the complete text of the New Testament and a limited apparatus, but using modern punctuation.[9]
Wordsworth died in 1911.[10] Even with the death of some of those involved in the project during theFirst World War, the second volume (containing thePauline epistles) had been published as far as theSecond Epistle to the Corinthians by 1926. In 1933, White enlisted Sparks to assist him in the work, who after White's death in 1934[11] assumed primary responsibility for the edition. After its completion, he served on the editorial board for theStuttgart edition of the Vulgate, beginning in 1959.[12]
The edition, commonly known as Oxford Vulgate, relies primarily on the texts of theCodex Amiatinus,Codex Fuldensis (Codex Harleianus in the Gospels),Codex Sangermanensis andCodex Mediolanensis; but also consistently cites readings in the so-called DELQR group of manuscripts, named after thesigla it uses for them:Book of Armagh (D),Egerton Gospels (E),Lichfield Gospels (L),Book of Kells (Q), and Rushworth Gospels (R).[13]
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