Table of Contents

Preface; 1. The Old Testament: manuscripts, text and versions Rev. Professor Bleddyn J. Roberts, D.D.; 2. The history of the text and canon of the New Testament to Jerome C. S. C. Williams; 3. Early Christian book-production: papyri and manuscripts T. C. Skeat; 4. Jerome Fr E. F. Sutcliffe, S.J.; 5. The medieval history of the Latin Vulgate Raphael Loewe; 6. The exposition and exegesis of scripture; 7. The 'People's Bible': artists and commentators Rev. R. L. P. Milburn; 8. Bible illustration in medieval manuscripts Professor Francis Wormald; 9. The Vernacular scriptures; 10. Erasmus in relation to the medieval biblical tradition Fr Louis Bouyer, D.D.; Bibliography; Notes on the plates; Plates; Indexes.

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The study of the Bible in the West, from Jerome and the Fathers to the time of Erasmus.