Vatican Palimpsests Digital Recovery of Erased Identities [by A. Németh]

Pal.lat.24 <inf.1>

Pal. lat. 24 includes several Biblical books of the Old Testament (Tobias, Judith, Job, Esther). It was initially copied in Uncial script, written in 22 long lines per page in the seventh or eighth century. The writing surface of this original manuscript seems to have been entirely made up of nine recycled Latin manuscripts and a Greek one, ranging from the fourth to the sixth century. Soon after its production (eighth century), probably already at Lorsch, this manuscript was restored and its missing texts were copied on brand-new parchment folios (ff. 1-8, 17-37, 54-71) by another Uncial hand. The long lines vary from 17-21 per page, and each page currently measures 110 × 85 mm. It found its way to the Palatine Library at Heidelberg whence it arrived to the Vatican Library in 1623.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Three bifolios of Pal. lat. 24 (ff. 44 + 39, 15 + 10, 40 + 43) were recycled from a manuscript of a small size with one column (90 × 60 mm with 17 lines per page) and semi-Uncial script from the fifth/sixth century (according to Lowe) or from the third/fourth century (according to Chatelain). The recycled folios preserve fragments from Seneca the Younger’s (4 BC - 65 AD) De amicitia and the initial section of his De vita patris, a fragment which survives only in this manuscript. The undersigning of the scribe Nicianus survives on f. 43v in cursive script.

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Pal. lat. 24, ff. 15r + 10v
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Pal. lat. 24, f. 15r - detail

Transcription: animi velocitate ne|minem a nobis amicu(m) | abesse patiamur in | animum subinde no|strum revertantur

Pal. lat. 24, f. 15r and Arch. Cap. S. Pietro D 182, f. 285r. Semi-Uncial

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