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TM 65873 / LDAB 7356 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/65873

also known as Vergilius Vaticanus; Codex F + M (Vergilius); Vatican Virgil

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Metadata

Date: mid 4th - mid 5th century AD: AD 350 - 450
A. Cameron, Journ. Rom. Arch. 17 (2004), p. 503, 518-519

Provenance: Rome ? - Italy (LatiumThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - Latium et Campania (Regio I)The Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]

Language/script: Latin, drawing (paleography: rustic capital)

Material: parchment

Book form: codex (75 fol.); columns per page: 1; number of lines per page: 21

Content (beta!): literary text, Vergilius: Georgica 03 - 04 passim, Aeneis 01 - 011 passim

Authors / works: Vergilius, Georgica: 03 - 04 passim, (direct attestation)
Vergilius, Aeneis: 01-011 passim (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature — poetry, epic

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo

Note: with drawings

More info: CLAEarlier Latin Manuscripts => 2046 links in TM, DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM

Publications

Lowe, CLA 1 11 (Lowe, Elias Avery - 1934) [default]

∙Wright (Codices selecti 71. Codices e Vaticanis selecti 40) (Wright, F. A. - 1984)

∙Wright, Vergilius Vaticanus. Vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat (Wright, David H. - 1980)

Photo: CLA 1 11; C. Zangemeister - G. Wattenbach, Exempla codicum latinorum litteris maiusculis scriptorum 1876, pl. 13; J. De Wit, Die Miniaturen des Vergilius Vaticanus, (plates of all miniatures); facsimile edition; H.-J. Martin – J. Vezin, Mise en page et mise en texte du livre manuscrit, 1990, p. 154-156; Atti del convegno internazionale "il libro e il testo", tav. 16 (Raffaeli)

Content studies: A. Geyer, Die Genese narrativer Buchillustration. Die Miniaturenzyklus zur Aeneis im Vergilius Romanus, Frankfurt 1989 [on the illustrations]

Script & book studies: J. Ruysschaert, Lignes d'un examen codicologique du 'Virgile Vatican' et du 'Virgile romain', Atti del convegno internazionale "il libro e il testo", 1984, p. 25-36; G. Nocchi Macedo, Ancient Latin poetry books, materiality and context (2021), p. 239-241 no. 21

Collections

→ Rome, Vatican, Biblioteca del Vaticano Lat. 3225 (Vergilius Vaticanus)

formerly personal property of Pontanus; later personal property of Fulvio Orsini

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