The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-06-15
A RARE OLD BIBLE
ONE corr PRINTED At HAsENoE
iN THE YEAR f451
Now ore Of tire Greatest Eibii-srzph-
ie cBHositiss-Vuisats Prepares
in England il the Nsishbsr-
hocd az ths Year 65a

The first attempt al printing a.
Nayence. IL 1850 vas q copy 81 ne
Vulgats. wood characters being lss5.
which contained only the principal
parts Of the old and Nsw Testaus1ts
This IS the so-czIlsd -BlbHa PauNa1-
an oas of the rarest bibliozrarhic
cur.csites. 2 COPY Of Whieh Eas bought
by the duke OF DaTo1sAire In ISIS.
who paid oniy e2oI for Il
England occupies 2 prominent plsaa
ii the history of the Vnisats ent in Its
preservation. As. tie purest text beng
in Milan. Naples and in the sonthsFl
provinces. Archbishop Thsod0re and
his companion. Hadrian. abbot Of
monastery near Naples, vent Ia Eng
land in 6ss. taking with them some
Of these Bibles Besides. iust ar that
time Benedict Biscop and Cs0liri1.
travelling between Rome and England
brought in other pure Yllgate texts.
which were copied and Reproduced in
the monasteries Of Wszrmouth and
JarTow. not only for local use. bur 70
b. spread BY missionaries IN foreign
countries. especially Germany. France
and Switzerland. and. strange as *
nav seem. even back 70 Italy But
what IS stranger still is that these
copies. known under the name Of
Northumbrian texts. had been tran
scribed with such sxactness that when
they returned 10 italy they were found
10 be purer than the Italian copies
which meanwhile had degeneTated.
One of the attempts 70 revive the Vul-
gate was made By Charles the Great
who intrusted the work to an Eng
Hshnan, Aicuin, who finished it in
sol.
In the century after the invention Of
printing the circulation Of faulty b.
bles assumed such proportions that the
necessity vas felt Of establishing an
official edition. A handsome volume.
in 1890, took the name Of the Sixtns
Bible. from sixtus v. and had as
preface the famous Bull. "Aetesnus
lls." establishing that this Bible be
considered as true, lawful, authentic
and unquestiOned Slxtus " died al
most Immediately after, and only two
years later Clement VIII. ordered that
every copy Of the Sixtine Bible be de-
stroyed. and published another called
the "Clementine." It seems that sixtus
v. had himself revised the work Of the
commission, hurting the feelings Of the
members and offending the Jesuits,
who never rested until they obtained
the suppression Of the Sixtine Bible
now one Of the rarest books In the
world.
Leo XIII. created the commission
DE Re Biblca.7 presided over by
/ Cardinal RampolIa, for the study Of
the Scriptures, but it remained an
academic body, while Plus x. desired
TO transform It into an institution foi
practical work. SO, on April 80, 1907
Cardinal Rampolla wrote a letter tC
Dom Hildebrand de Hemptinne, alb
bot primate Of the Benedictines, who
used 20 live in England, intrusting tbs
new revision Of the Vulgate TO them
and straightway appointing Abbot Gas
quet as head Of the committee. The
English abbot admirably fulflls th'
/ requirements Of so responsible a 20
sition. To vast, profound culture h'
adds the temperament Of grea
worker and a love for accuracy AMI
detall.-Pal Mall Magazine.