Week 3. Vulgata: Samson.

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Gutenberg Bible. This fragment is from the Gutenberg Digital Bible project, http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/gudi/start.htm. As you can see, it does not look like the kind of printing you are accustomed to. There are many writing conventions derived here from manuscript-writing tradition, such as the use of abbreviations with special signs written over the letters to indicate the abbreviation, special signs that indicate a combination of characters and so on. Look at the first words of this passage for example: Clamavitque ad eum... There is a special abbreviation for the -que and the m of the eum is indicated by a line about the word.

How much of the rest of the passage can you read?