Document: Translation of the Book of Tobit and Judith
Reference:
Incipit: Preface to Tobit: Mirari non desino
Preface to Judith: Apud Hebraeos
Addressee:Chromatius and Heliodorus
Date: 407

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:Tobit Preface translated by Kevin P. Edgecomb:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_preface_tobit.htm

Judith Preface translated by Kevin P. Edgecomb:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_preface_judith_e.htm

Judith Preface translated by Andrew S. Jacobs:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_preface_judith.htm

Preface paraphrased in W.H. Fremantle, "Tobit and Judith" in NPNF2, vol. 6 (New York, 1893), p. 494.

Notes:This was eventually incorporated into the Vulgate.


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