In the eighth and ninth centuries, such scholars as Alcuin and Theodulf set about correcting linguistic and textual errors that had crept into Jerome’s version because of repeated copying.

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Alcuin’s version of the Latin Bible, 800 C.E.

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From Paléographìe latine, by F. Steffens (www.archivi.beniculturali.it)