Prefaces to the Latin Bible

"Originally conceived as an instrumentum laboris to the great Benedictine project to produce a critical edition of the Vulgate, it now has a new life as a unique collection of the many texts that were presented with, or alongside, the biblical text until the end of the middle Ages. These texts predisposed readers as to what they found in the sacred texts, and how they imagined the collection as a whole. This collection makes available the raw material for a new chapter in the study of the Latin bible and the study of its reception in the later patristic and medieval periods."