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.
Cicero, Orationes
Oratio Pro C. Rabirio perduellionis reo (Pal. lat. 24, ff. 124v + 128av + 123r + 128v)
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Transcription of Pal. lat. 24, ff. 124v + 128av + 123r + 128v (from Niebuhr, M. Tullii Ciceronis Orationum pro M. Fonteio e pro C. Rabirio fragmenta, pp. 72-73)
A quire of Pal. lat. 24 (ff. 122-128a) preserves two single folded folios (ff. 122 + 128a, 125 + 126) and a central bifolio (ff. 123 + 128 and 124 + 128a) of a quire from a recycled ancient codex that had included Cicero’s speeches; fragments of two speeches survive in the surviving folios. In his speech Pro C. Rabirio perduellonis reo, Cicero undertook the defence of an old senator, impeached in 63 BC with the accusation of having murdered the demagogue L. Saturninus 36 years ago. In the other speech, Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino in 80 BC, the young Cicero defended a Roman citizen accused of having murdered his rich father who was put on the black list of L. Cornelius Sulla. Cicero won, C. Rabirius was released and Sulla’s collaborator and libertine, L. Cornelius Chrysogonus was thrown from the Tarpean Rock. The text was copied in the fifth century in Uncial script in two columns with 21 lines per page, each measuring 68 mm in width. The reconstructed page of the recycled codex (ff. 123v + 128r) includes the closing section of the first and the initial section of the subsequent oration.
Oratio Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino (Pal. lat. 24, ff. 123v + 128r)
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