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The term Vetus Latina (Latin for "Old Latin") refers to those Latin texts of the Bible, translated from the Greek New Testament and Septuagint, which circulated in early Christianity prior to the production of the Vulgate of Jerome. Liturgically, the Vetus Latina was almost entirely replaced in the Western Church by the Vulgate, but the surviving Old Latin witnesses continue to be useful in textual criticism because they witness to an early form of the Greek New Testament as it existed in a period which has left us with very few surviving manuscripts.
A frequently cited document in textual criticism is the Codex Bobiensis, an Old Latin manuscript commonly referred to by the abbreviation k.
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