The work was to be overseen by special committees, but Pope Sixtus V, impatient to see it completed and evidently a little overconfident regarding his own abilities, decided to finish the job himself. Printing of his revised edition had just begun when the pope died in 1590.
إلا ان البابا سيكستس الخامس اخذ على عاتقه انهاء العمل لأنه كان متشوِّقا جدا الى رؤيته مكتملا وواثقا على ما يبدو بمقدراته اكثر من اللازم .‏