The Latin Bible,<i>c</i>. 900 to the Council of Trent, 1546
Frans van Liere
Modern scholars know a good deal more about the state of Vulgate Bible text before and during Carolingian renaissance than in five centuries after 900. In an essay published 1984, Laura Light pointed out that very little systematic study had been done on manuscripts dating from tenth century, work either dealt mainly with art-historical questions manuscript production illumination, or treated texts primarily as witnesses to pre-900 traditions, rather placing them within their own historical context. Despite progress some fields, such so-called ‘Paris’ biblical correctoria thirteenth this affairs has not fundamentally changed over two decades later. This chapter will give overview textual history Latin (in version which became known later, sixteenth Vulgata) renaissance, tracing it through periods ecclesiastical monastic reform, rise scholasticism first printed edition 1452/1456, until critical editions were brought by Renaissance Counter-Reformation. The latter led would be printed, modifications, Sixto-Clementine 1592, remain standard for centuries.
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