The San Francisco call., 1896-02-15

W say nothlng of Psalters, New Testaments
anu otner parts" (Maitland's Ozark Ages,
?. 46o) This estimate is. however, very far
MI Mitnln the truth. Reuss, leading Ration
freons,s ,as, ., Germany says that no book was SO
s.q sieq quently published Immediately after the
@ mlsI invention OF printing as the Latin Bible,
more more than 100 editions of it being struck off
scb;rStd oeb9rs tne year 1922 (Ed Reuss "Die Ge-
wiek, VI 1853 p 1885 Hahn in his "Repertorium
nnootaiographlcum," printed at Tubingen, reck-
onsconsecutively ninety-eight distinct editions
other edit,SS ene year iS0o indePendenly 9t Twelve
IeA., 1o, presented the Glossa Ordinaria or the
Fostliias OF Uranus From the year 1875,
tha Mnen ane first Venetian edition appeared; to
s sie ciose OF the century that city yielded no
IeWer Ie man twento-two mplete editions OF the
LaIln Bible besides some others with the notes
VI a Uranus: lsee Irish Ecclesiastical Record,
GERMAN BIBLES.
II. German Bibles: The first German
PI PIIhteu Bible, bearing the arms OF Frederick
II IL, issued from the Mentz press about the
year l4oZ. Another version appeared in 1466,
senatorlai library at Leipsic. Other versions
were published In rapid succession They ep-
Peared as follows: At Mayence, in the year
1918; at Augsburg In II 1477, 1856. i4ss, 1857,
I49O, 1434, 1907, 1918 and 1924; at Stras-
9urg, In 1883. Faust's edition was printed in
tinet tI versions of the German Bible, printed at
Wlttenberg in 147O, 1883 and 149O. (tSeck-
eng. Comment. in Luth--," Lib. 1, Sec. SD
Lubbock in 1494, at Halberstadt in 1922, at
Cologne between 147O and 1880, at Delft in
14n' at Gouda in 1879 and at Louvaln in
printed in old German, Nuremberg, 1774, and
tne New History of Catholic German Bibles"
Nuremberg. No,a1 17s4.) Luthers Bible, it may be
noteu, was not completed until 1880.
. on the question of German Bibles an Eng
lish paper, speaking of the "list of Bibles in
the ,sez5 Caxten exhibition" South Kensington,
catalogue will be very useful for one thing, at
any rate, as disproving the popular lie about
Luther's finding the Bible for the first time at
E;riurt, t;, at 1909. Not only are there many edi.
tions OF the Latin Vulgate long anterior to that
tine, put there were actually nine German
eoluons OF the Bible in the CaXton exhibition
carrier than 1443, the year of Luther's birth,
ana at least three more before the end OF the
century,"
ITALIAN BIBLES.
III. italian Bibles: Three editions of the
HOLY Bible in the Italian tongue appeared in
the year 147l-one being a translation by
Nicholas Malermi, q Camaldese monk, and
two others by writers of the fourteenth CEN
tury. No fewer than eleven complete editions
oI lnese several versions appeared before the
year 1000, and were reprinted eight times
more before the year 1867, with the express
permission OF the "holy office" More than
forty editions are reckoned before the appear
ance OF the first Protestant version in Italian.
An entirely new translation was made by
Sanctes Marmoschini in 1888 and was reprint
In 1882, from which date to 1872 twelve edi-
tlons OF this version appeared; but, though re-
markable for its Tuscan dialect it was in
accurate In many passages, and for this reason
was condemned by the ecclesiastical authori-
ties. The first Protestant Italian Bible was
printed at Geneva in 1862, and was little more,
be 1t observed in passing, than reprint OF
Bruccioli's version.
SPANISH BIBLES.
~. Spanish Bibles: In Spain the whole Bible,
whleh mad been translated into the vernacular
tongue by Boniface Ferrier in 1405, was print
ed in 1878, and reprinted in 1916, with the
formal consent of the Spanish Inquisition. In
1912 the Gospels and Epistles were translated
by Am oros1o Montesma, and this work was re-
published at Antwerp in 1914, at Barcelona in
1901 and 1908, and at Madrid in 1903 and
1918. Garranza, the celebrated Archbishop of
Toledo, says in the prologue to his "Commen-
taries': Before the heresies OF Luther ap-
peared do not know that the Holy Scriptures
in the vulgar tongue were anywhere forbidden
In Spain the Bible was translated into it by
order OF the Catholic sopereigns at the time
when the Moors and Jews were allowed to live
among the Christians according to their own
law"
He then proceeds to show why the indiscrim-
mate c1rculation-from which SO much evil re-
sulted-of the same was subsequently prohib-
lted in Spain. (See Balmez on European Civil
ization," Oh. SO, Eng. Trans, p. 1929
FRENCH BIBLES.
V. French Bibles: A French translation of
the New Testament by two Augustinian friars.
Julian Macho and Pierre Target, was pub
lished at Lyons in 1478. A copy of this edi-
tion % is still preserved in the public library at
The version of De Moulins appeared soon
afterward, the best edition OF which, carefully
revised by Jean de Rely, was published in
Paris under the auspices OF Charles VIII in
14S7. 1t passed through fourteen other edi-
tions in Paris and Lyons alone before the year
14s4, and that Of James LIE Peyre in 1912.
This last, corrected by Louvain divines, be.
came so popular that it passed through more
than forty editions before the year 100. An
other French Catholic translation, by Nicholas
de Leause, was printed at Antwerp in 1884
The first Protestant version was printed at
Neufchatel in 1885.
OTHER VERSIONS.
vi. Other versions: Among these may be
mentioned particularly the Flemish transla-
ton made by Jacobus Moreland; cir. A. d.
1910 which was printed at Cologne in 1475,
and passed through seven editions before the
year 1880, and of which the Antwerp edition
was republished eight times in the space
OF seventeen years; and the Flemish transla-
lions OF the New Testament by Cornelius Ken
drick, 1924, OF which ten editions were pub
llshed at Antwerp alone within thirty years.
Bohemian version was published at Prague
in I48e at Cutra in 1893; and at Venice in
Cracow, and an Ethiopic Bible was issued at
Rome in 1913.
Complete lists of the various Catholic trans
lations OF the Bible will be found in LIE Longs
"Bibliotheca Sacra," two vols. fol-, Paris, 1928;
and in the "Bibliotheque Curieuse" OF the
CalYlnlSt writer, David Clement, nine vols,
Alto, Gottingen, 1850.
The reader may also be referred to the Cub
lin Review fYol IL and the "Irish Ecclesias-
tical Record" (Vol. u.
A FALSEHOoD EXPOSED.
You have all heard how during 1900 years
the Catholic Church kept the Scriptures from
the knowledge OF her children. until providen-
TALLY Luther discovered a copy of the Bible
chained to the wall of his mon nastery in Erfurt,
how he broke the chains which bound it, and
read Tor the first time the pure, unadulterated
word of God. "DAublgnes History of the
Reformation, work widely circulated and
accepted by the majority of non-Catholic read
ers as an authority on all matters pertaining
to the Protestant Reformation, puts it as an
historical TACT that Luther, having had the ad-
vantage OF a university education, did not
know there was such q thing as Bible until
he made this astounding discovery. DR..
Maitland, in mis- work, "The Dark Ages" ex-
posed the falsehood, yet 1t lives on as one
OF the stock objections against the Catholic
church.
1 quote from DR.. Maitland: seTo say nothing
OF parts OF the Bible or of books whose place is
uncertain we know of at least twenty different
editions of the whole Latin Bible printed in
Germany before Luther was born. These had
issued from Augsburg, Strasburg, Cologne Ulm,
Mentz ~, Basic az, Nuremberg QO), and were
dispersed throughout Germany before Luther
was born. And may add that before that
event there was printing press at work in
the very town of Erfurt years after he is said to
have made his discovery We find a young
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