Document: Translation of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Songs of Solomon according to the Hebrew
Reference:
Incipit:  
Addressee:Chromatius and Heliodorus
Date: 398

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 translated by K.P. Edgecomb: http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_preface_solomon.htm

Preface translated in W.H. Fremantle, "Preface to Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs" in NPNF2, vol. 6 (New York, 1893), p. 492. 

Notes:This was eventually incorporated into the Vulgate.


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