Editing Pope Sixtus V (section)

=== Sixtine Vulgate and Septuagint ===
{{Main|Sixtine Vulgate|Roman Septuagint}}
{{See also|Sixto-Clementine Vulgate|Nova Vulgata}}
In May 1587, the Sixtine Septuagint was published under the auspices of Sixtus V.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ftp.ccel.org/ccel/swete/greekot.iii.vi.html|title=Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek. Additional Notes. CHAPTER VI. PRINTED TEXTS OF THE SEPTUAGINT.|last=Swete|first=H. B.|author-link=Henry Barclay Swete|date=1914|website=Christian Classics Ethereal Library|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191103215554/http://ftp.ccel.org/ccel/swete/greekot.iii.vi.html|archive-date=3 November 2019|access-date=2019-11-03}}</ref>

In May 1590 the Sixtine Vulgate was issued.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=The Early Versions of the New Testament|last=Metzger|first=Bruce M.|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1977|location=Oxford|pages=348|author-link=Bruce M. Metzger}}</ref> The edition was preceded by the Bull ''Aeternus ille'', in which the Pope declared the authenticity of the new Bible.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=https://www.internationalstandardbible.com/V/vulgate.html|title=Vulgate in the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.|website=International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Online|language=en|access-date=17 September 2019}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yk1CKgPRKtAC&pg=PA881|title=A Dictionary of the Bible|last=Hastings|first=James|date=2004|publisher=University Press of the Pacific|isbn=978-1-4102-1729-5|volume=4, part 2 (Shimrath - Zuzim)|location=Honolulu, Hawaii|page=881|language=en|chapter=Vulgate|author-link=James Hastings|orig-year=1898}}</ref> The bull stipulated "that it was to be considered as the authentic edition recommended by the [[Council of Trent]], that it should be taken as the standard of all future reprints, and that all copies should be corrected by it."<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|title=A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament|last=Scrivener|first=Frederick Henry Ambrose|author2=Edward Miller|publisher=[[George Bell & Sons]]|year=1894|edition=4|volume=2|location=London|page=64|author-link=Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener|title-link=A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament}}</ref> "This edition was not to be reprinted for 10 years except at the Vatican, and after that any edition must be compared with the Vatican edition, so that "not even the smallest particle should be altered, added or removed" under pain of the "greater [[Excommunication (Catholic Church)|excommunication]]."<ref name=":5" /> [[Jaroslav Pelikan]], without giving any more details, says that this edition "proved to be so defective that it was withdrawn".<ref name=":7">{{Cite book|chapter-url=http://archive.org/details/reformationofbib0000peli|title=The reformation of the Bible, the Bible of the Reformation|last=Pelikan|first=Jaroslav Jan|date=1996|publisher=Yale University Press|others=Dallas : Bridwell Library; Internet Archive|location=New Haven|pages=14|chapter=1 : Sacred Philology|isbn=9780300066678 |author-link=Jaroslav Pelikan}}</ref>