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J K Elliott, The Principal Pauline Epistles: A Collation of Old Latin Witnesses. Edited by H. A. G. Houghton, C. M. Kreinecker, R. F. MacLachlan, and C. J. Smith, The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 70, Issue 2, October 2019, Pages 796–800, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flz068
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With financial help from the European Research Council, Hugh Houghton was recently enabled to appoint three collaborators to work with him on this project at the University of Birmingham, UK. The book is a collation of all the allegedly Old Latin witnesses to the main four Pauline Letters: Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, and Galatians. The results are clearly set out here verse by verse and chapter by chapter throughout these major texts. All the witnesses are collated, somewhat ironically perhaps, against the Stuttgart Biblica Sacra Vulgata (5th edition, 2006), the edited text of which is included in full; all the witnesses cited here agree with that text unless otherwise indicated.
Houghton is well aware that one should not use the terms ‘Old Latin’ and ‘Jerome’s Vulgate’ for these Pauline letters, but he is prepared to do so, merely for the sake of convenience. As we look through the 25 continuous texts and the other 12 witnesses, many (especially among the 25) are either extremely fragmentary or have very few readings that may legitimately be labelled as being different from the bulk of what one conventionally calls Vulgate manuscripts. Only about half of the manuscripts (say, 12) manifest predominantly Old Latin readings throughout.
