Editing Vulgate (section)

== Variants ==
As with the ''vetus latina'' and the Greek [[Textual_criticism#New_Testament|text types]], manuscript versions of the Vulgate texts exhibit a considerable number of minor variations by scribes. [[Vulgate_manuscripts#History|Regular attempts]] were made over the centuries to conserve Jerome's text or to purify the text of obvious errors or substitutions from ''vetus latina'' phrases: attempts such as by [[Cassiodorus]] in the 6th century, [[Alcuin]] in the 8th, [[Stephen Harding]] in the 12th, [[Erasmus]] in the 16th, to the modern Stuttgart Vulgate.<ref>{{cite book|last1=McNamara |first1=Martin |last2=Martin |first2=Michael |title=The Bible in the Early Irish Church, A.D. 550 to 850 |date=2022 |doi=10.1163/9789004512139_011}}</ref> 

Scholars have identified families of variants, allowing tracing of influence or provenance of texts: for example, the Latin text of the [[Old_English_Bible_translations#Gospels_from_the_South,_East_and_North|Rushworth gospels]] belongs to the Insular or Irish family with characteristic inversions of word order.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tamoto |first1=Kenichi |title=The Macregol Gospels or The Rushworth Gospels (Introductory Part) |date=2019 |doi=10.13140/RG.2.2.14468.27527}}</ref>''{{rp|xlv}}''