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.
Two bifolios of Pal. lat. 24 (ff. 73 + 78 and 75 + 76) include unique fragments from Livy’ Ab urbe condita (B. 91) on the Sertorian War in Spain (80-72 B.C.). One folio from the ancient Livy manuscript was folded into half in the process of recycling. If the original structure were reconstructed, these two bifolios would constitute the central bifolio of the erased and recycled ancient manuscript. The text was copied in the fourth century and arranged in two columns (of 4 cm width) and 30 lines per page written in capitalis rustica. This Livy fragment was the earliest palimpsest discovered at the Vatican Library in 1772 and was published with a layout that accurately reflected its original, without the upper text in 1773. The manuscript has running titles in capitalis rustica.
Pal. lat. 24, f. 73r and Vat. lat. 3867, f. 9v. Capitalis rustica
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