Bibliorum Sacrorum Latinae versiones antiquae; seu, Vetus Italica, et caeterae quaecunque in codicibus mss. & antiquorum libris reperiri potuerunt
Subtitle: quae cum Vulgata Latina, & cum textu Graeco comparantur. Accedunt praefationes, observationes, ac notae, indexque novus ad Vulgatam è regione editram, idemque locupletisimus
By: Operá & studio D. Petri Sabatier
Contributors: Lucas, Franciscus, 1549?-1619
Publisher: Apud Franciscum Didot
Published: 1751
Place of publication: Parisiis
Language: lat
Work titles: Bible. Latin. 1751
Notes: This collection of specimens of the Old Latin version was edited by Pierre Sabatier, a Benedictine schola, and publishe with the Vulgate text at Reims, apud Reginaldum Florentain, 1743-49. Reissued with fresh title-pages by F. Didot, in 1751.

It is made up, partly of extracts from the Fathers, and partly (to a less extent) of fragments of mss. chiefly at Paris. Strangely enough, it remains the only full collection of quotations from the fragments of the Old Latin version of the Old Testament and the New Testament, although a rich abundance of material has come to light since Sabatier's day. Its special value lies in the collection of Patristic quotations from the Old Latin.

Preliminary matter to v. 1 includes the dedication Celsissimo Aurelianensium Duci; Praefatio generalis; with Permissio, Approbatio, and Privilege du Roi (all dated 1737), followed by preface to Clemantine Bible, decree of Council of Trent, and Jerome's prologues, etc.

v. 1, Genesis to Job; v. 2, Psalms to Maccabees; v. 3, the New Testament, with appendix of extra-canonical books (the Prayer of Manasses and 3 and 4 Esdras), followed by indexes, etc., and ending with colophone E prelo exiit hic tomus anno 1749.

The texts--Old Latin and Vulgate--are printed generallly in parallel columns, with critical notes below. At the end of each book is given a selection from the "Romanaee correctiones" of F. Lucas. In the Psalter, Jerome's version from the Hebrew is given as well as the usual Vulgate translation.