Enciclopedia Cattolica

Plate CLIV · Vulgate

Vol. XII (1954) · full-page plate
Above: TITLE PAGE AND BEGINNING OF THE SONG OF SONGS FROM THE VULGATE BIBLE, published by Sixtus V (Rome 1590), without taking into account the readings adopted by the commission of card. Caraffa. Note the plegulus pasted by order of the Pope, to modify the already published text: Cantica for Canticum; 2, 8, venit. Copy of the Biblioteca Vaticana deposited at the Pont. Ist. Biblico - Rome. Below left: AMIATINE BIBLE. Redra in the act of transcribing the sacred books (7th-8th cent.) - Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana. Below right: TITLE PAGE OF THE VULGATE BIBLE, published (in the name of Sixtus V) by Clement VIII (Rome 1592), with the readings adopted by the cardinalatial commission. Note the almost absolute identity of the title page. Copy of the Biblioteca Vaticana, deposited at the Pont. Ist. Biblico - Rome.
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Plate CLIV
(fot. Ene. Catt.)
Plate CLIV
(per cortesia di mens. A. P. Frutaz)
Above: TITLE PAGE AND BEGINNING OF THE SONG OF SONGS FROM THE VULGATE BIBLE, published by Sixtus V (Rome 1590), without taking into account the readings adopted by the commission of card. Caraffa. Note the plegulus pasted by order of the Pope, to modify the already published text: Cantica for Canticum; 2, 8, venit. Copy of the Biblioteca Vaticana deposited at the Pont. Ist. Biblico - Rome. Below left: AMIATINE BIBLE. Redra in the act of transcribing the sacred books (7th-8th cent.) - Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana. Below right: TITLE PAGE OF THE VULGATE BIBLE, published (in the name of Sixtus V) by Clement VIII (Rome 1592), with the readings adopted by the cardinalatial commission. Note the almost absolute identity of the title page. Copy of the Biblioteca Vaticana, deposited at the Pont. Ist. Biblico - Rome.

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