The Revision of the Vulgate A Report (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Revision of the Vulgate: A Report In its first session the Commission determined to make the College of St. Anselm the centre of the work and to gather together there the collations of all the manuscripts made by or for the members. For the purpose of the collation it was determined to print a copy of the present Clementine text. Of, the Latin Scriptures; each page, to-the extent of two thirds of its surface, being left blank; with no capital letters, no stops, no word divided and in every way made as much 7 like a manuscript. As. Possible. 'with this text, 50 prepared, the reviser, on comparing it with a manuscript he desires to collate, by the simple device of correcting the print like an ordinary. Proof sheet, is able to reproduce every im portant feature of the. Manuscript. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.