Publications On 8 April 1546, at the
Council of Trent, a decision was made to prepare an authorized version of the Vulgate. No direct action was taken for the next forty years, and many scholars continued to publish their own editions. Among these editions, the edition prepared by Hentenius served almost as the standard text of the
Catholic Church. The first edition of Hentenius was entitled
Biblia ad vetustissima exemplaria nunc recens castigata and was published by the printer in November 1547. Hentenius used over thirty
Vulgate manuscripts to make his edition. Hentenius' edition is similar to the 1532 and 1540 editions of the Vulgate produced by
Robert Estienne.
Lucas Brugensis editions After the death of Hentenius in 1566,
Franciscus Lucas Brugensis continued his critical work and prepared his own edition; the edition was published in 1574 in
Antwerp by
Plantin, under the title:
Biblia Sacra: Qui in hac editione, a Theologis Lovanienibus prestitum sit, paulo post indicatur. This revision has the same text as the original edition. However the punctuation was modified, and supplementary variants were added in the margin; few variants from the original edition were removed. In 1583, a new edition of the Leuven Vulgate was published by the
Plantin Press. This edition was a reprint of the 1574 edition with as a supplement in
appendix a
critical apparatus made by Lucas Brugensis: his
Notationes in sacra Biblia previously published independently in 1580. This edition was published under the title:
Biblia Sacra, quid in hac editione a theologis Lovaniensibus praestitum sit, eorum praefatio indicat. == Importance ==