The Roman Septuagint, also known as the Sixtine Septuagint (Sixtine ) or the Roman Sixtine Septuagint, is an edition of the
Septuagint
The Septuagint ( ), sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (), and abbreviated as LXX, is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Biblical Hebrew. The full Greek ...
published in 1587, and commissioned by
Pope Sixtus V
Pope Sixtus V (; 13 December 1521 – 27 August 1590), born Felice Piergentile, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 24 April 1585 to his death, in August 1590. As a youth, he joined the Franciscan order, where h ...
.
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), is a manuscript of the Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Old Testament and the majority of the New Testament. It is designated by siglum B or 03 in the Gregory-Aland numb ...
''.
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
Rahlfs published
his edition of the Septuagint which became the new standard.
Antonio Carafa Antonio Carafa may refer to:
*Antonio Malizia Carafa (died 1437)
*Antonio Carafa (cardinal) (1538–1591)
*Antonio Carafa (general) (1642–1693)
*Antonio Carafa (bishop of Ugento) (died 1704)
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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".
Names
This work has been given multiple names:
* Roman Septuagint
* Sixtine Septuagint (Sixtine
)
* Roman Sixtine Septuagint
* Roman (Sixtine) Septuagint
* Roman edition of the Septuagint
* Vetus Testamentum Iuxta Septuaginta
See also
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Sixtine Vulgate
*
Aldine Bible
References
External links
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1587 books
Editions of the Septuagint
Pope Sixtus V
16th-century Christian texts
Early printed Bibles
16th-century Catholicism