Many Jewish and pagan converts obtained their first knowledge of the Bible through the Septuagint. 2. Old Latin. Since the Christians of Rome and of the Roman Empire needed a Latin Bible for the ...

What was overcome was not only the exterior obstacle of an unsatisfactory literary form of the Old Latin Bible, but above all the interior obstacle of a book that was no longer just a document of ...

An ancient bible thought to be more than 700-years-old and illustrated by a medieval ... The small bible - handwritten in Latin and just 17cm high - is an illustrated manuscript, so the first ...

The Sarum Master Bible features detailed letter illustrations and minuscule Latin text The bible's pages ... kept in the cathedral's 600-year-old library, behind a gate that the public are not ...