Document: Translation of the Prophets according to the Hebrew
Reference:
Incipit: Isaiah:          Nemo cum Prophetas
Jeremiah:     Hieremias propheta cui
Ezekiel:        Hiezechiel propheta cum
Daniel:         Danihelem prophetam iuxta
The Twelve: Non idem ordo
Addressee:Paula and Eustochium (each Prophet)
Date: 393

Earliest ms.:

 
Latin Text:R. Weber and B. Gryson, eds., Biblia sacra: iuxta Vulgatam versionem (Stuttgart 1994). [text provided by Douay-Rheims Bible Online]
English Translation:Preface to Isaiah translated by K.P. Edgecomb:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_preface_isaiah.htm

Preface to Jeremiah translated by K.P. Edgecomb:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_preface_jeremiah.htm

Preface to Ezekiel translated by K.P. Edgecomb:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_preface_ezekiel.htm

Preface to Daniel translated by K.P. Edgecomb:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_preface_daniel.htm

Preface to the Twelve translated by K.P. Edgecomb:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_preface_prophets.htm

Prefaces to Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel summarized, Daniel and the Twelve translated in W.H. Fremantle, "Prefaces" in NPNF2, vol. 6 (New York, 1893), pp. 492-93.

Notes:This was eventually incorporated into the Vulgate.
Bibliography:
 
Jerome's WorksJerome Abbreviations


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