Document: Translation of the Book of Tobit and Judith
Incipit: Preface to Tobit: Mirari non desino
Preface to Judith: Apud Hebraeos
Addressee: Chromatius and Heliodorus
Date: 407
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): Tobit Preface translated by Kevin P. Edgecomb: here.
Judith Preface translated by Kevin P. Edgecomb: here.
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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