Pierre Sabatier (Maurist)

Bibliorum sacrorum latinae versiones antiquae, title page of volume I dated 1743, but published 1749[1]

Pierre Sabatier (1682–1742), or Petrus was a French Maurist scholar.

Sabatier joined the Benedictine Order in 1700, at Reims. At the Abbey of St-Germain-des-Prés he studied under Thierry Ruinart. He was moved to Reims in 1727, under suspicion of Jansenist sympathies.[2]

Biblical scholar

Sabatier concentrated on the Vetus Latina: the corpus of Latin biblical manuscripts predating the Vulgate of Jerome, the version begun in 382 CE.[3] He edited Bibliorum sacrorum latinae versiones antiquae, published posthumousl from 1749.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Houghton, H. A. G. (17 March 2023). The Oxford Handbook of the Latin Bible. Oxford University Press. p. 349. ISBN 978-0-19-088611-0.
  2. ↑ Cross, Frank Leslie; Livingstone, Elizabeth A. (2005). The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Oxford University Press. p. 1443. ISBN 978-0-19-280290-3.
  3. ↑ "The Vetus Latina Edition".
  4. ↑ Labriolle, Pierre De (5 November 2013). The History and Literature of Christianity. Routledge. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-136-20212-4.
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