ID: 901000929 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901000929	Record Type: Literature

	Vulgate, The (version of the Bible, 4th century)

Note: Late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible that was the official Latin version of the Bible of the Roman Catholic Church for centuries. The translation was largely the work of St. Jerome, who, commissioned by Pope Damasus I to revise the Vetus Latina ("Old Latin") collection of biblical texts in Latin then in use by the Church.

Display Date: begun 382

Names:

	Vulgate, The (version of the Bible, 4th century) (preferred,English-P,D,P)
	Versio Vulgata (version of the Bible, 4th century) (Latin,U,P)
	Vulgata (Italian-P)

Hierarchical Position:

		Literature and Performing Arts (P)
		....<Named written and performed works> (P)
		........<Literary works: Philosophy, Religion> (P)
		............Bible (sacred literature, Judeo-Christian) (I)
		................<Versions of the Bible (Sacred texts)> (P)
		....................Vulgate, The (version of the Bible, 4th century) (I)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... religious text
	.....(documents by function, document genres, information forms (objects), Information Forms (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	author is .... Jerome, Saint (Roman religious leader, saint, ca. 342-420)
	.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

	culture/religion is .... Christian
	.....(Abrahamic religions, religions (belief systems, cultures), religions and religious concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Vulgate, The (version of the Bible, 4th century)
	................J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	Versio Vulgata (version of the Bible, 4th century)
	................Catholic Encyclopedia [online], republished from 1913 edition (2003-)
	Vulgata
	................ICCD database (1988-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Catholic Encyclopedia [online], republished from 1913 edition (2003-)
	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	................ ICCD database (1988-)