Dataset
Vulgate Acronym, Acrostic, and Telestic Searchable (Latin) Database: Major and Minor Prophets
(2022)
Description
This Excel database provides a convenient tool for searching for acronyms (horizontal acrostics), acrostics or telestics, and mesostics involving the first/last words, of each verse in the Latin Vulgate Old Testament. The data was compiled from base texts downloaded from https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/Vulgate/ and from https://www.musall.de/vulgata. Each verse record displays orthographic word and letter counts, and first letters and last letters of each Latin word. Each verse-record is tagged by book name and chapter/verse reference, and each column-field may be searched and manipulated with Excel Auto-Filter. After the last verse of each chapter, a chapter-level summary, tagged with a final underline character, displays word and letter count sums. Each chapter-level record contains two extra letter displays; the four columns of letters in the chapter records contain the following sequences:
Initial (First) = the initial letters of the first word of each verse,
Final (First) = the final letters of the first word of each verse,
Initial (Last) = the initial letters of the last word of each verse, and
Final (Last) = the final letters of the last word of each verse.
The characters in the letter fields are separated by spaces. Thus, a search for i-a-o may be implemented by entering the sequence i-space-a-space-o in the Excel “Find and Replace” search box (CTRL-F). Initial letters of Vulgate proper names are normally in upper case, but the default Excel search will find both lower and upper case instances of whatever letters are entered. Note also that the “Within” option in that “Find and Replace” tool allows the search to cover only the active worksheet, or all worksheets in the active workbook.
This particular database contains every verse in the the books of the Major and Minor Prophets. In the Lamentations table, the Hebrew letters (ALEPH, BETH, etc.) that are spelled out at the beginning of each verse in chapters 1-4 in the Vulgate text have been omitted from consideration. The file may be opened and used with Excel 2007 or later, or with generic spreadsheet software such as OpenOffice or LibreOffice. If for any reason the records in a table are out of order, selecting an A to Z Auto-Filter sort in the "Verse/Chap" column will restore the table to its original order.
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Publication Date
Summer 2022
Citation Information
Keith L Yoder. "Vulgate Acronym, Acrostic, and Telestic Searchable (Latin) Database: Major and Minor Prophets" (2022) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/klyoder/65/