Document: Translation of the Pentateuch, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and Esther according to the Hebrew
Incipit: Preface to Pentateuch: Desiderii mei
Preface to Joshua-Ruth: Tandem finita Pentateucho
Preface to Ester: Librum Hester variis
Addressee: Pentateuch: Desiderius
Judges-Ruth: Eustochium
Esther: Paula and Eustochium
Date: completed 404-406
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 Only): Preface to Pentateuch translated by K.P. Edgecomb: here.
Preface to Pentateuch translated by S. Rebenich, pp. 101-104.
Preface to Pentateuch summarized in W.H. Fremantle, “Preface to Genesis” in NPNF2, vol. 6 (New York, 1893), pp. 488-89.
Preface to Joshua-Ruth translated by K.P. Edgecomb: here.
Preface to Joshua-Ruth summarized in W.H. Fremantle, “Preface to Joshua, Judges, Ruth” in NPNF2, vol. 6 (New York, 1893), p. 489.
Preface to Esther translated by K.P. Edgecomb: here
Preface to Esther summarized in W.H. Fremantle, “Preface to Esther” in NPNF2, vol. 6 (New York, 1893), p. 491.
Notes: This was eventually incorporated into the Vulgate. Jerome, Notes on the Additions to Esther by K.P. Edgecomb

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