Front matter
Reading edition
Produced by Dennis McCarthy
(Latin Vulgate, Daniel) : Prophetia Danielis
This is a complete electronic ASCII text of the Book of Daniel from the Latin Clementine Vulgate, sections translated from the Greek Septuagint included, with section headers, footnotes, and appendicies. notes concerning this file:
transcriber: Dennis McCarthy 261 South Colonial Homes Circle, N.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30309-1226
Dedicated to the Memory of Elliott Harry Aldridge (1910 May 19 - 1990 November 01)
1996 December 08 1997 February 02 (revised)
Source: P. Michael Hetzenauer, Ord. Min. Cap. editor. Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis: Sixti V Pont. Max. Iussa Recognita et Clemens VIII Auctoritate Edita. Neo Eboraci et Cincinnati
I have transcribed from this source as accurately as possible for this e-text, with the following changes: 1) I formatted each verse into a separate line and added the chapter number to each verse number. In doing this I lost the source's paragraph structure. 2) I exploded the ligatures for "ae" and "oe" into two characters rather than one character for each diphthong. 3) I capitalized all of the section headings which were either in bold or italicized print originally. These sections headings may not be original to the Vulgate, but then neither are verse numbers. 4) In all references to verses I used a colon to separate the chapter number and verse number rather than a comma as in the source. 5) I placed the footnote designators in parentheses and re-lettered them for the whole body of the text. The original recycled to "a" for each new page. I also arranged the cross reference footnotes themselves into one chart at the end of the text. 6) I moved the marginal notations into an appendix.
Verses 3:52-3:90 are formatted differently than the rest of the text. This is because this section is a song/poem that was formatted specially in the source text.
Please note that some sentence-like sections end with a period, but the following line does not begin with a capital letter. I recommend that this format remain. The source's editor seems to have been quite confident in the propriety of this approach. I have retained all of the source's capitalization and punctuation except for the section headers.
65 is the target line length, but because of the length of many of the Latin words, my desire not to create "orphan" words, and a genuine lack of talent on the part of the transcriber for such matters, the margination is rather ragged.
This text carries no warranty of any kind.
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