Database
Vetus Latina Database - online
Vetus Latina Database - online (2024)
- Language(s):Latin, German, English
- Publication Year:2023
- ISBN: 978-2-503-60924-9
- Online
- Available
Summary
The huge panoply of Latin biblical texts which were in existence
and use from the second century AD/CE until the time when the
Vulgate became predominant are known under the common rubric of the
Vetus Latina, or the Old Latin, Bible. The term Vetus Latina refers
to all those biblical texts translated into Latin which are not
found in the Vulgate. The textual tradition of the Vetus Latina is
complex and incomplete. Because there are a limited number of
extant manuscripts that haphazardly cover the biblical text the
basic sources are biblical citations or allusions that are found
within the writings of the Latin Fathers or Greek patristic authors
who were translated at an early date into Latin. This database
contains every citation, listed by book, chapter and verse of the
Bible. The citations (over 300,000) can be searched individually or
as a whole, following the biblical structure. The result of a
search is an image of the card file available in the Vetus Latina
Institute.