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LUCANIA - Convent of Montescaglioso rebuilt by Charles II of Anjou in 1484.

considerably revised edition of J. Henten's Bible.

L. also collaborated on the Sixtine edition of the Vulgate; then he continued his work, not hesitating to bring to light the defects of the pontifical edition. In 1606 he published variant readings on the Gospels and in 1617 a new collection of variants, which extended to the entire Bible: Libellus alter continens alias lectionum variantes (Antwerp 1617; reproduced in J.-P. Migne, S. Scripturae cursus completus, XXVIII, Paris 1840, pp. 599-620). The Sixto-Clementine Bible of 1592 was therefore not considered a perfect work by L., who corrected it in his own Plantin edition of 1603. Nevertheless, in Rome it was thought that there was no need to proceed to a new "authentic" edition after those that had appeared in 1592, 1593, 1598.

A disciple of Arias Montano (v.), L. was his collaborator for the polyglot Bible of Antwerp. The Concordantiae Scripturarum (1617) are also owed to him. L.'s complete works were published in a 2nd, posthumous edition, edited by Von Velden, at Antwerp in 1712.

BIBL.: sources

Th. J. Lamy, La Bible royale en cinq langues imprimée par Plantin, in Bulletin de l'Académie royale de Belgique, 20 (1892, III), part 2, pp. 628-68; A. C. de Schrevel, Documents relatifs à la biographie de François L., in Annales de la Société d'émulation, Bruges 1892; anonymous, s. v. in Biographie nationale de Belgique, XII (1892-93), coll. 550-63; H. Quentin, La Vulgate à travers les siècles et sa révision actuelle, Rome 1926, p. 6 ff.; F. Stumacher, Einführung in die lateinische Bibel, Paderborn 1928, pp. 176, 204 f.; J. O. Smit, De Volgaat, Ruremonde 1948, passim. Giuseppe Coppens

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