Description: You will need to click on the "enter database" button to get to Vetus Latina. Pre-Vulgate Bible versions of the Latin Church Fathers. Because there are a limited number of extant manuscripts that haphazardly cover the biblical text, the basic sources are biblical citations or allusions that are found within the writings of the Latin Fathers or Greek patristic authors who were translated at an early date into Latin.

This database contains every citation, listed by book, chapter and verse of the Bible. The citations can be searched individually or as a whole, following the biblical structure.

To see all variants for a particular verse on a single page, click on the "Einzebild" button after the Biblical book, chapter, and verse are chosen.

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Within the application the complete repertorium of H.J. Frede (Kirchenschriftsteller - Verzeichnis und Sigel, Freiburg, 1995) can be consulted online, as well as its updates (R. Gryson)

Sources: Card file maintained by the Vetus Latina Institute of each biblical citation.

Timeframe: premodern|

Print Counterparts: Vetus Latina : die Reste der altlateinischen Bibel. Nach Petrus Sabatier neu gesammelt und hrsg. von Erzabtei Beuron. Location: Van Pelt Library Religious/Medieval Studies (Rm. 303) BS73 1949

Bibliography of Sources:

H.J. Frede, Kirchenschriftsteller. Verzeichnis und Sigel, 4. aktualisierte Auflage, Freiburg, Herder, 1995. Location: Van Pelt Library Z6514.C44 F86 1984
Aktualisierungsheft 1999, mise ` jour par R. Gryson, Freiburg, Herder, 1999

Publisher/Provider: Vetus Latina Institut, Erzabtei Beuron, Beuron (Germany). Electronic exploitation rights & design: Brepols Publishers nv, Turnhout (Belgium),