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by tmalsburg2 2883 days ago
Awesome. I learned Classical Latin in school. Would I be able to read the Latin of the Gutenberg Bible with moderate effort or is that Latin too different and peculiar?
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The Latin of the Gutenberg Bible is St. Jerome's, so from about 400. It should be nothing that you would find difficult. I imagine that there will take some but not much time to figure out the abbreviations, ligatures, etc.

Tuft's Perseus project (and many, many other sites) have the Vulgate available on-line: see http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Pe... .

I suspect yes, but I am not qualified to really answer that.

But can you read Textura?

There are digital facsimiles and photos of several Gutenberg Bibles online. Just give it a try.