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    The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20161110015501/http://www.bl.uk/treasures/gutenberg/textbible.

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    Gutenberg's texts 1 2 3

    The text of the Bible

    The Gutenberg Bible contains the Latin version of the


    Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek New Testament,
    mainly the work of Jerome (c.345-420 AD) who translated
    some biblical texts from the originals and in other instances
    revised older Latin translations. He began his work on the
    translation in 380 AD.

    In the course of time, Jerome's text was subject to change, and


    hand-written Latin Bibles in the West often diverged on
    substantial points, partly under the influence of earlier
    translations, and partly as a result of differences which
    inevitably arise whenever a book is copied by a scribe.

    In Paris, in the 12th century, an attempt was made to create a


    standard Latin Bible, but the textual basis was criticized even
    by contemporaries and, as a result of the desire to create a
    better standard, the text was subjected to much change in the
    subsequent period.

    The text of the Bible as it appears in the Gutenberg Bible is the


    result of emendations of the Parisian Bible tradition, but it is
    already quite different from the standard which had been
    established 200 years earlier. It is close to a group of
    manuscripts written in the area of the Rhine in the 14th and
    15th centuries.

    The Gutenberg Bible became the basis on which further


    emendations to the Bible were made. Not until the 20th century
    was an attempt made to reject the unsystematically corrected
    text, and to reconstitute Jerome's translation on the basis of a
    critical assessment of manuscript evidence.

    The text of the Gutenberg Bible is placed in a philological


    context in Heinrich Schneider, Der Text der Gutenbergbibel zu
    ihrem 500järigen Jubiläum untersucht, Bonner biblische
    Beiträge, 7 (Bonn, 1954).

    A discussion of its relation to the tradition of the Vulgate, and a


    complete list of the texts included in the Gutenberg Bible can
    be found in Robert Weber, 'Der Text der Gutenbergbibel und
    seine Stellung in der Geschichte der Vulgata', in: Johannes
    Gutenbergs zweiundvierzigzeilige Bibel, Faksimile-Ausgabe nach
    dem Exemplar der Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz
    Berlin: Kommentarband, ed. W. Schmidt and F. A. Schmidt-
    Künsemüller (Munich, 1979), 9-31.

    The text in relation to the work of the printers is discussed by


    Paul Needham, 'The Text of the Gutenberg Bible', in
    Trasmissione dei testi a stampa nel periodo moderno, vol. II: Il
    seminario internazionale Roma-Viterbo 27-29 giugno 1985, ed.
    by Giovanni Crapulli (Rome, 1987), pp. 43-84, and Paul
    Needham, 'The Changing Shape of the Vulgate Bible in
    Fifteenth-century Printing Shops', in The Bible as Book: The
    First Printed Editions, ed. by Kimberley van Kampen and Paul
    Saenger (London, 1999), pp. 53-70.

    Kristian Jensen, 'Printing the Bible in the Fifteenth Century:


    Devotion, Philology and Commerce', in Incunabula and Their
    Readers: Printing, Selling and Using Books in the Fifteenth
    Century, edited by Kristian Jensen (London: The British Library,
    2003), pp. 115-138, discusses how commercial imperatives
    changed the texts of the Bible and who bought and used Bibles
    in the 15th century.

    An account of the principles followed in the critical edition of the


    Vulgate prepared under the supervision of a Papal committee
    since 1908 is found in Henri Quentin, Mémoire sur
    l'établissement du texte de la Vulgate, Ière partie,Octateuque,
    Collectanea biblica latina, 6 (Rome and Paris, 1922). This work
    received a mixed critical response.

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