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

Pal.lat.24 <inf.5>

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.

Fronto, Gratiarum actio pro Carthaginiensibus

A bifolio of Pal. lat. 24 (ff. 46 + 53) preserves fragments of Fronto’s Gratiarum actio pro Carthaginiensibus (second century), the only surviving fragments of a speech which was delivered in the Roman senate in the defence of the Carthaginians. The text was copied in the fourth or fifth century in capitalis rustica. The tiny extant portion of the text does not offer a detailed historical context of its origin.

Pal. lat. 24, f. 46r

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Facsimile of Pal. lat. 24, f. 46r (from A. Mai, Cornelii Frontonis et M. Aurelii imperatoris epistulae, Romae 1823)

Pal. lat. 24, f. 46r and Vat. lat. 3867, f. 9v. Capitalis rustica

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