Which Vulgate Do You Have?

Which Vulgate Do You Have? - How to know if you have the Clementine, Stuttgart, or the Nova Vulgate - Taylor Marshall

'How do you know which “Vulgate” you have? Open up your Latin Vulgate to Genesis 3:20. How is Eve’s name spelled? This will immediately tell which “Vulgate” you have in your hands:

• If it’s spelled Heva: Clementine Vulgate (1592) – the standard printed Vulgate of the Catholic Church for Scripture and Liturgy until the Nova Vulgata (1979)
  
• If it’s spelled Hava: Stuttgart Vulgate (1969) – a scholarly critical edition of the Vulgate from the German Bible Society, not used in the liturgies of the Catholic Church. This is an academic Vulgate with a critical apparatus – it often includes the Pslater iuxta Hebraeos.
• If it’s spelled Eva: Nova Vulgata (1979) – the official Catholic edition of the Vulgate currently used in the liturgies of the Catholic Church (i.e. Missale Romanum 1969 & Liturgia Horarum)

This is the only fool-proof way for knowing which edition of the Vulgate that you have in your hands. So grab your Vulgate and check it out. I checked out the New Advent Vulgate at Gen 3:20 and happily discovered that it’s the Clementine Vulgate.'

 

I have the critical edition of the Vulgate from the German Bible Society 1994 edition from the 1969 edition.

My electronic Vulgate is from:
'Name: Jerome's A.D. 405 Biblia Sacra Vulgata Latina (Latin Vulgate)

Title: Jerome's A.D. 405 Biblia Sacra Vulgata Latina (Latin Vulgate)

Abbreviation: Vulgate

Language: lat

Version: 1.0

Version date: June 15, 2009

Creator: Costas Stergiou (root@theword.gr)

Filename:

/storage/emulated/0/mysword/bibles/vulgate.bbl.mybible

Size: 4,456,448

Comments:

Jerome's A.D. 405 Biblia Sacra Vulgata Latina (Latin Vulgate)
Source: Unbound Bible Project - Biola University'