Biblia Sacra Vulgata

The Vulgate is a translation of the Bible into Latin, made at the end of the fourth century (from 382 AD), by Saint Jerome.

It was commissioned by Pope Damasus I (366-384) two years before his death. The version takes its name from the phrase editio vulgata (published edition) and was written in ordinary Latin as opposed to Cicero's classical Latin, which Jerome of Stridon mastered. The purpose of the Vulgate was easier to understand and more accurate than its predecessors.

The Latin Bible used before the Vulgate, the Vetus Latina, was not translated by a single person or institution and was not even uniformly edited. The quality and style of individual books varied. The translations of the Old Testament almost all came from the Greek Septuagint.