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LINKS TO THE LATIN VULGATE & ORIGINAL DOUAY-RHEIMS HOLY BIBLE

Edwin Wright

The Links

Readers are advised that throughout this website, footnote references to uncorrupted Latin and Early Modern English editions of the Holy Bible are now linked to the online digital libraries holding such editions. Additionally, the links in question are accessible from the SCRIPTURE folder in the above menu and are repeated here as follows:

LINK 1: Biblia Sacra, Vvlgatae Editionis (1598 A.D.)1

LINK 2: The Nevv Testament of Iesvs Christ, Rhemes Edition (1582 A.D.)2

LINK 3: The Holie Bible (Old Testament – First Tome), Doway Edition (1609 A.D.)3

LINK 4: The Holie Bible (Old Testament – Second Tome) Doway Edition (1610 A.D.)4

LINK 5: The Holy Bible (Old & New Testaments) Doway-Rhemes Edition (1635 A.D.)5

The original (1582/1609/1610) Douay-Rheims Holy Bible was printed in three volumes — the New Testament in the year 1582, and the Old Testament in the years 1609 (First Tome) and 1610 (Second Tome). It was reprinted (again in three volumes) in 1635.

The Original Douay-Rheims Holy Bible Must Be Reprinted

Whereas (a) the original Douay-Rheims Holy Bible — see on this website: Part A: The Original and Uncorrupted Douay Rheims Bible (1582, 1609, 1610 A.D.) — was not widely distributed due to religious persecution in the seventeenth century, and (b) the Challoner Revision (1749-1752) — upon which the modern (i.e., 1899 edition) is based — is actually a corrupted revision of the original Douay-Rheims Holy Bible — see on this website: Part B: The Corrupted Challoner Revision of the Douay-Rheims Holy Bible (1749–1752) — it follows that an error-free printing of the original Douay-Rheims Holy Bible with its prodigious notes and annotations — in Early Modern English (EModE), exactly as the original, and printed to the highest standards in the industry — is a present-day imperative for English-speaking countries in and of itself but even more so, given the extent to which the English language is used worldwide in our times.

We appeal to you our readership to give prayerful consideration to this matter and canvass any local, regional, national, or multinational Catholic institutions, organizations, or publishers within your purview having the potential inclination and means to carry out a professional reprinting of the original (and uncorrupted) Douay-Rheims Holy Bible as expounded above. Please contact this website with any questions, comments, or concerns that you may have in in this regard.


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UPDATE May 1, 2024: PLANE GEODESY has undertaken a project to provide a highly readable transcription of The Apocalypse of Saint John the Apostle from the 1582 Rheims New Testament. Check it out. See Blog C: The Apocalypse of Saint John the Apostle.


  1. BIBLIA SACRA VVLGATAE EDITIONIS, SIXTI V.P.M. IVSSV recognita atque edita. ROMAE. Ex Typographia Vaticana. M. D. XCVIII. (Held by HathiTrust.)↩️

  2. THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH, out of the authentical Latin, according to the beſt corrected copies of the ſame, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other neceſſarie helpes, for the better vnderſtanding of the text, and ſpecially for the diſcouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late tranſlations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of theſe daies: In the English College of Rhemes. PRINTED AT RHEMES, by Iohn Fogny. 1582. (Held by Internet Archive.)↩️

  3. THE HOLIE BIBLE FAITHFVLLY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, OVT OF THE AVTHENTICAL LATIN. Diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greeke, and other Editions in diuers languages. With Argvments of the Bookes, and Chapters: Annotations: Tables: and other helpes, for better vnderſtanding of the text: for diſcouerie of Corrvptions in ſome late tranſlations: and for clearing Controversies in Religion. By the English College of Doway. Printed at Doway by Lavrence Kellam, at the ſigne of the holie Lambe. M. DC. IX. (Held by Internet Archive.)↩️

  4. THE SECOND TOME OF THE HOLIE BIBLE FAITHFVLLY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, OVT OF THE AVTHENTICAL LATIN. Diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greeke, and other Editions in diuers languages. With Argvments of the Bookes, and Chapters: Annotations: Tables: and other helpes, for better vnderſtanding of the text: for diſcouerie of Corrvptions in ſome late tranſlations: and for clearing Controversies in Religion. By the English College of Doway. Printed at Doway by Lavrence Kellam, at the ſigne of the holie Lambe. M. DC. X. (Held by Internet Archive.)↩️

  5. THE HOLY BIBLE FAITHFVLLY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH OVT OF the authentical Latin, diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greek, & other Editions in diuers languages: With Arguments of the Bookes and Chapters, Annotations, Tables, & other helps, for better vnderſtanding of the text: for diſcouerie of Corruptions in ſome late tranſlations: and for clearing Controuerſies in Religion. By the English College of Dovvay. Printed by Iohn Covstvrier. PERMISSV SVPERIORVM. M. DC. XXXV. (Held by Internet Archive.)↩️