Vulgata Sixto-Clementina, is the edition of Latin Vulgate from 1592, prepared by Pope Clement VIII. It was the second edition of the Vulgate authorised by this Pope, and it was used until the 20th century.
The Sistine Vulgate prepared by Pope Sixtus V was edited in 1590 but it was unsatisfactory from a textual point of view. As a result this edition was short-lived.
Clement VIII (1592–1605) ordered Franciscus Toletus, Augustinus Valerius, Fredericus Borromaeus, Robertus Bellarmino, Antonius Agellius, and Petrus Morinus to make corrections and to prepare a revision. The revision was based on the Hentenian edition. It was printed on 9 November 1592, with a preface written by Cardinal Bellarmine. The misprints of this edition were partly eliminated in a second (1593) and a third (1598) edition.
The Clementine Vulgate contained in the Appendix additional apocryphal books: Prayer of Manasseh, 3 Esdras, and 4 Esdras. It contained also Psalterium Gallicanum, as did the majority of the early editions of Vulgate.
It contains texts of the Acts 15:34 and the Comma Johanneum in 1 John 5:7.
It was issued with the Bull, Cum Sacrorum (9 November 1592), which claimed that every subsequent edition must be assimillated to this one, no word of the text may be changed, nor even variant readings printed in the margin.
It is cited in all critical editions and it is designated by siglum vgc or vgcl.
The Clementine edition differs from the Sistine edition in about 3,000 places (according to Carlo Vercellone). According to Bruce M. Metzger it differs in some 4,900 variants, according to Kurt Aland in about 5,000 variants.