The 1452AD The Gutenberg Bible was a reproduction of the Jerome Latin Vulgate, and it had 18 apocrypha books listed before Pope Sixtus made his Bible, and then a little later the Sixtus-Clementine removed all but 7 of them, and 5 additions, and they discarded 6 that had been in it.
These were not in Jerome’s Bible, and he'd have rolled over in his grave if he had known what they did to his Bible.
JH :)
You no doubt understand that the Bible isn't St. Jeromes' creation, it is the Catholic Churchs' under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and that the discovery of ancient Hebrew copies of some of the Deuterocanonicals at Qumran proves that Jeromes' personal comments were unfounded. Jeromes' job was to translate not determine Canon. The Septuagint, or Alexandrian Canon, came into existence at least 225 years prior to the Hebrew Canon at Jamnia in 100 AD. Also, take a look at what St. Augustine had to say in response to St. Jeromes' prudential statements regarding the Deuterocanonicals, as well as the Councils of Nicaea, Hippo and Carthage.