[1] In addition to the critical edition of the Vulgate, a series called Collectanea Biblica Latina was created to publish subsidiary findings from research on the Latin Bible.
A motu proprio of 1914, Consilium a Decessore, established a pontifical commission to oversee this work,[2] which in 1926 was credited on the title page of the first published volume of the resulting edition, Biblia Sacra iuxta latinam vulgatam versionem ad codicum fidem.
[3] On 15 June 1933, an apostolic constitution, Inter praecipuas, established an abbey to complete the work;[4] a further motu proprio was issued in 1934 to clarify its status.
[8] As a result of liturgical changes that had spurred the Vatican to produce a new translation of the Latin Bible, the Nova Vulgata, the Benedictine edition was no longer required for official purposes,[9] and the abbey was suppressed in 1984.
[11] Five monks were nonetheless allowed to complete the final two volumes of the Old Testament through the Pontifical Commission for the Revision and Emendation of the Vulgate, which were published under the abbey's name in 1987 and 1995.