Vetus Latina ("Old Latin" in
Latin), also known as
Vetus Itala ("Old Italian"),
Itala ("Italian") and
Old Italic, is the
collective name given to the
biblical texts in
Latin that existed before the
Vulgate, the late fourth-century Latin
translation of the Bible that
later became the
Catholic Church's standard Latin Bible. As the English translation of
Vetus Latina is "Old Latin", they are also sometimes referred to as the
Old Latin Bible, although they are written in the known as
Late Latin, not that known as
Old Latin. The old latin manuscripts that are preserved to day are dated from 350 CE to 1400 CE.