The Waldensian Confession of 1120

While searching for biographical information on Jean Paul Perrin, author of Luther's Forerunners: or, A cloud of Witnesses, deposing for the Protestant Faith, gathered together in the Historie of the Waldenses, et al., I found a Baptist Board thread titled The 1120 Waldensian Confession, wasn't, by member CarpentersApprentice. [I didn't want to revive a "zombie thread" so I'm starting a new thread here.] In the thread CA said that the 1120 confession actually haled from the 1500s.

The 1120 Confession can be found on the web in several places, often from the truncated version given by William Jones. Covenant Baptist Church gives a version that is supposed to be from Samuel Morland. The Confession is also linked here from History of the Ancient Christians Inhabiting the Valleys of the Alps.

CarpentersApprentice's assertion seems reasonable, but my question is whether this is the only explanation. For example, might either the author or the translator (Perrin's works were originally written in French, and, I think, first translated into Dutch) have changed the terminology to something with which they were more familiar? Or some other explanation? Or did Perrin "practice to deceive" (or was himself deceived)?

 

When I could have taken Latin in High School, I took French instead (what was is thinking?). But I would surmise that these abbreviations mean "end book first Samuel" and "begin book second Samuel".

If this list at Wikipedia can be trusted, Codex Theodulphianus, Codex Toletanus and Codex Complutensis (about the same age) are the oldest Vulgates with the Old Testament, and possibly 200 years older than the Waldensian Confession. So that negates the Apprentice's argument that these books were never called 1 and 2 Samuel before the 1500s.

Thanks.

 

So far I haven't found much on Jean Paul Perrin in sources I have access to, but apparently he was no slouch. According to Daniel Walther in Were the Albigenses and Waldenses Forerunners of the Reformation, Perrin was pastor of the church at Nyons in France, and was first commissioned to write on the Albigenses:

The task apparently included oversight and collaboration of others inspecting various documents that were available.

[I think Walther was an Adventist, but the article appears well researched, and parts I was looking at agree with other info I found.]

 

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Not arguing with your point, but I'd be interested in being pointed to some specifically so I can read some of the points of those modern scholars. I found one online yesterday, but he was a Catholic who was very invested in proving there was little to no valid dissent to their "true" church, and that the Waldenses circa 1100-1200 were (I suppose) just rogue Catholics.