By the 13th century it had taken over from the former version the designation versio vulgata (the 'version commonly used') or vulgata for short. Over succeeding centuries, it eventually eclipsed the Vetus Latina.

The Vulgate became progressively adopted as the Bible text within the Western Church. Later, on his own initiative, Jerome extended this work of revision and translation to include most of the books of the Bible. The Vulgate is largely the work of Jerome who, in 382, had been commissioned by Pope Damasus I to revise the Vetus Latina Gospels used by the Roman Church.

The Vulgate ( / ˈ v ʌ l ɡ eɪ t, - ɡ ə t/ also called Biblia Vulgata (Bible in common tongue), Latin: ), sometimes referred to as the Latin Vulgate, is a late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible.