- Books of the Latin Vulgate
These are the books of the Latin Vulgate along with the names and numbers given them in the
Douay Rheims Bible andKing James Bible . There are 76 books in the Clementine edition of the Latin Vulgate, 46 in theOld Testament , 27 in theNew Testament , and 3 in the Apocrypha.Old Testament
Notes
The names and numbers of the books of the Latin
Vulgate differ in ways that may be confusing to many modernBible readers. In addition, some of the books of the Vulgate have content that has been removed to separate books entirely in many modern Bible translations. This list is an aid to tracking down the content of a Vulgate reference.The
Psalms of theVulgate follow the numbering assigned to them in theSeptuagint which differs from the numbering found in theKing James Bible , though not in the order nor the content. SeePsalms for more details.Note that the Apocrypha and
Old Testament divisions of the Vulgate do not exactly correspond to those sections in the King James Bible. The Vulgate's Apocrypha section is smaller than the King James Bible's, with a correspondingly larger Old Testament. See the article on theBiblical canon for details as to why this is so. The names of those books found in the Apocrypha section of their respective versions are in "italics".A complement to this list can be found at
List of books of the Authorized King James Version .Other Editions
The list is for the Clementine Vulgate. Other editions of the Vulgate vary in the Apocrypha, in the order of the books, and in the names of the books.
*The Gutenberg Bible mixes the apocrypha into the
Old Testament , with thePrayer of Manasses following 2 Paralipomenon, and 3 and 4 Esdras following 1 Esdras and Nehemias. ThePrayer of Solomon followsEcclesiasticus . It thus has 50 books in the Old Testament and 27 in the New, for a total of 77 books.*The New Vulgate changes the name of "
Ecclesiasticus " to "Liber Siracidae"; "Tobiae" is called "Thobis". Although the New Vulgate contains theDeuterocanonical books , it omits the three apocrypha entirely. It thus has a total of only 73 books.*The Stuttgart Vulgate adds
Psalm 151 and Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans to the Apocrypha. It thus has 5 books in the Apocrypha, 46 in theOld Testament , and 27 in the New, for a total of 78 books. The spelling of proper names in this edition is irregular and inconsistent, so the names of many of the books were altered, e.g. "Naum" for "Nahum ".External links
* [http://www.fourthcentury.com/index.php/jerome-translations-of-scripture Timeline of Jerome's translations.]
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