Petrus Sabatier

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Petrus Sabatier or Pierre Sabatier (* 1682 in Poitiers , † 24. March 1742 in Reims ) was a French Benedictine of Maurists - Congregation and text researcher at the Vetus Latina .

life and work

Vetus Italica , title page of the first volume

Pierre Sabatier was aged 18 years Benedictines of the Congregation of the Religious Order of Maurists of St. hl. Maurus and then the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris near the Sorbonne . Here he was introduced to scholarship under the direction of Jean Mabillon , Thierry Ruinart (1657–1709) and other Benedictine scholars . a. was busy with the writing of the chronological records of the order, the Annals ( Annales bénédectines ). After Ruinart's death, who was a friend of Sabtier's, Sabatier was banished to the Saint-Nicaise Abbey in Reims on suspicion of Jansenism , where he could devote himself entirely to his work on the old Latin versions of the Bible and their printing.

That Saint-Germain-des-Prés was the main scientific focus of the Maurinians is indicated by the dedication of his great biblical work to the Duke of Orléans , who lived in Paris. However, the work appeared in Reims , where with Saint-Remi also existed an important Maurinian abbey.

The work was published under the title “Bibliorum Sacrorum latinae versiones antiquae seu vetus Italica et ceterae quaecumque in codicibus manuscriptis et antiquorum libris reperiri potuerunt, quae cum Vulgata latina et cum textu graeco comparantur, full. 3 ” . The third work was published by the Benedictines F. Baillard d'Inville and V. De la Rue in Reims 1743–49 and as a new edition in Paris 1739–51, with a slightly modified title. The work of the Sabatier, which was based both on the Latin biblical codes of the pre-Geronymic text and on quotations from early Christian writers and documents, was grandiose and exhaustive for the time. Further information on the material collected there and other things that later came to light can be found in the Bible, VI, pp. 896 f.

Sabatier belonged to the historical school of the French Maurinians of the 17th and 18th centuries, who had set themselves the task of editing and, where necessary, the reconstruction of basic texts from the history of the order and church. They did pioneering work in this and developed the methods themselves. In many ways they pioneered historical-critical text research.

Sabatier's personal goal was to reconstruct what he called the Vetus Italica , i.e. H. the Latin Bible translation family that was used in the West before the translation of Jerome as Vulgate was widely received in the 5th century . To do this, he spent three decades researching all fragments of the Old Latin Bible that were accessible to him, as well as copies and prints by early Christian Latin church writers, and excerpting their Bible quotations. The result, a synopsis of the Vetus Italica and the Vulgata Nova , was printed in three volumes with Sabatier's extensive comments and annotations only after his death 1743–1751 (all with the printing year 1743). The work remained fundamental to text research for a long time.

Publications

  • Bibliorum Sacrorum latinae versiones antiquae, seu Vetus Italica, et Caeterae quaecunque in Codicibus M [anu] s [criptis] & antiquorum libris reperiri potuerunt: Quae cum Vulgata Latina, & cum Texto Graeco comparantur.

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Individual evidence

  1. so with VIAF and GND; according to Emmenegger 1684
  2. Dom Pierre Sabatier (1684–1742) tried to reconstruct the old Latin translation of the Bible that was in use before the Vulgate of Jerome, and for 30 years collected fragments in all manuscripts and prints available to him. His result appeared in three volumes under the title Vetus Italica (1743–1751), In: d-nb.info/1020543264/34 p. 7 (PDF)
  3. ^ Sabatier, Pierre (1682-1742) forme internationale, In: catalogue.bnf.fr (French)
  4. a b c Sabatier, Pierre, di Giuseppe Ricciotti - Enciclopedia Italiana (1936), In: treccani.it (Italian). Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Dedicated address
  6. a b Pierre Sabatier (born 1682, died 1742.), Theological Quarterly. In association with several scholars. Published by Johann-Sebastian von Drey, D. Herbst, D. Hirscher and D. Möhler, Tübingen 1834 in the Google book search
  7. Bibliorum Sacrorum latinae, by Sabatier, Pierre, 1682–1742; La Rue, Vincent de, d. 1762, p. 896, In: archive.org