The Roman Septuagint, also known as the Sixtine Septuagint (Sixtine
) or the Roman Sixtine Septuagint (sometimes ''Roman (Sixtine) Septuagint'', ''Roman edition of the Septuagint'' or ''Vetus Testamentum Iuxta Septuaginta''), is an edition of the
Septuagint
The Greek Old Testament, or Septuagint (, ; from the la, septuaginta, lit=seventy; often abbreviated ''70''; in Roman numerals, LXX), is the earliest extant Greek translation of books from the Hebrew Bible. It includes several books beyond ...
published in 1587, and commissioned by
Pope Sixtus V.
The printing of the book "was worked off in 1586, but the work was not published until May 1587." Hence why a second on the publication date of the book "has been added in many copies with the pen."
This edition is based on the ''
Codex Vaticanus
The Codex Vaticanus ( The Vatican, Bibl. Vat., Vat. gr. 1209), designated by siglum B or 03 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 1 ( von Soden), is a fourth-century Christian manuscript of a Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Greek Old ...
''.
The text of this edition of the Septuagint became mostly the standard for all the later editions of the Septuagint for three centuries after its publication, until
Rahlf published
his edition of the Septuagint which became the new standard.
Antonio Carafa
Antonio Carafa (1538 – 13 January 1591) was an Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal from the House of Carafa.
Biography
Early years
Antonio Carafa was born in Naples to Rinaldo I Carafello Carafa, a local patrician, and Giovanna of the ''signor ...
directed the work on the edition of the Roman Septuagint.
The Roman Septuagint was published "by the authority of Sixtus V, to assist the revisers who were
preparing the Latin Vulgate edition ordered by the Council of Trent."
See also
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Sixtine Vulgate
The Sixtine Vulgate or Sistine Vulgate () is the edition of the Vulgate—a 4th-century Latin translation of the Bible that was written largely by Jerome—which was published in 1590, prepared by a commission on the orders of Pope Sixtus V a ...
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Aldine Bible
References
External links
Original edition:
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Other
* (translation in Latin by Carafa of the Roman Septuagint; see the , click on "metadati" if the loading of the image fails)
Further reading
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*{{Cite web, url=http://ftp.ccel.org/ccel/swete/greekot.iii.vi.html, title=Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek. Additional Notes. CHAPTER VI. PRINTED TEXTS OF THE SEPTUAGINT., last=Swete, first=H. B., author-link=Henry Barclay Swete, date=1914, website=Christian Classics Ethereal Library, url-status=dead, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191103215426/http://ftp.ccel.org/ccel/swete/greekot.iii.vi.html, archive-date=2019-11-03, access-date=2019-11-03
1587 books
Editions of the Septuagint
Pope Sixtus V
16th-century Christian texts
Early printed Bibles
16th-century Catholicism