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Last updated: 21/4/08 The Clementine text project

St. Jerome by Bellini

The Clementine text of the Latin Vulgate Bible is freely available from this site.

The text was completed on 3rd April 2005. It has been proof-read twice, and work to correct the remaining errors is ongoing.

Get the text

The text is available in the several formats, depending on what you want to do with it.

View it online or search online. The HTML version can be viewed online with any web browser. You can also link to any Vulgate passage at http://vulsearch.sf.net/html/abbrev.html#xchapter_verse where abbrev is the standard abbreviation of the book.

Download it to your PC. VulSearch is a free program for viewing the Latin Vulgate, with side-by-side Douay–Rheims translation. The program features fast full-text searching of the Latin and English texts, as well as textual annotation, automatic cross-referencing, and bookmarks to organize related Scripture texts.

Get a printed copy. The PDF version has been typeset ready for printing: you can either print it yourself, or buy a printed copy online. It can be viewed with Acrobat Reader, available free of charge from the Adobe web site.

Convert the text into another format. The marked-up plain text Latin source files are available, together with sample scripts to convert them to other formats.

Copyright status

The text is released into the public domain, and you can use it as you wish with no legal obligations. Nonetheless, you should consider yourself under a moral obligation to report any errors you find in the text to me. Parts of the text may not be proof-read systematically again, and if you don't point out an error, it may never be corrected. In addition, if you redistribute the text, please mention the source of the text, and make clear any changes you have made to it.

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Links

Firefox search plugin If you use Firefox as your web-browser, you can use this plugin created by Marjorie Burghart to search the Clementine text on this site directly from the browser's search bar.

MediaWiki extension (new) If you run a Wiki, you can use this extension (also by Marjorie Burghart) to easily insert links to the Vulgate text on this site.