Donatien de Bruyne was a French biblical scholar, textual critic, and Benedictine

Benedictine

Benedictine refers to the spirituality and consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century for the cenobitic communities he founded in central Italy. The most notable of these is Monte Cassino, the first monastery founded by Benedict...

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He was born in 7 October 1871 in Neuf-Église

Neuf-Église

Neuf-Église is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France.-References:*...

, ordained in 1895. De Bruyne examined Latin manuscripts of the Vulgate

Vulgate

The Vulgate is a late 4th-century Latin translation of the Bible. It was largely the work of St. Jerome, who was commissioned by Pope Damasus I in 382 to make a revision of the old Latin translations...

, and he collated some of the manuscripts (e.g. Codex Frisingensis, Codex Carinthianus

Codex Carinthianus

The Codex Curinthianus, designated by β or 26 , is a 6th or 7th century Latin manuscript of the New Testament. The text, written on vellum, is a version of the old Latin. The manuscript contains the fragments of the Gospel of Luke, on only 2 parchment leaves.It contains a fragments of the Gospel...

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De Bruyne questioned Jerome

Jerome

Saint Jerome was a Roman Christian priest, confessor, theologian and historian, and who became a Doctor of the Church. He was the son of Eusebius, of the city of Stridon, which was on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia...

's authorship of the Pauline epistles

Pauline epistles

The Pauline epistles, Epistles of Paul, or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen New Testament books which have the name Paul as the first word, hence claiming authorship by Paul the Apostle. Among these letters are some of the earliest extant Christian documents...

 of Vulgate. According to him Pelagius

Pelagius

Pelagius was an ascetic who denied the need for divine aid in performing good works. For him, the only grace necessary was the declaration of the law; humans were not wounded by Adam's sin and were perfectly able to fulfill the law apart from any divine aid...

 prepared the Pauline epistles.

De Bruyne discovered and published in 1930 an anti-Marcionist Prologue to the Gospel of John

Gospel of John

The Gospel According to John , commonly referred to as the Gospel of John or simply John, and often referred to in New Testament scholarship as the Fourth Gospel, is an account of the public ministry of Jesus...

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Works

• Une Concordance Biblique d’Origine Pélagiense Revue biblique 5 (1908), pp. 75–83.
• Sommaires, divisions et rubriques de la Bible latine (Namur, 1914).
• Étude sur les origines de notre texte latin de saint Paul, Revue biblique 12 (1915), pp. 358–392.
• Préfaces de la Bible latine (Namur, 1920)
• Les fragments de Freising (épîtres de S. Paul et épîtres catholiques), Rome, Bibliothèque Vaticane, 1921.
• Les plus anciens prologues latins des Évangiles, Revue benedictine 40 (1928).
• Nouveaux Sermons de Saint Pierre Chrysologue, Journal of Theological Studies 29 (1928), pp. 362–368.