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.
Three bifolios of Pal. lat. 24 (ff. 81 + 86, 100 + 101, 74 + 77) preserve three folded folios of a fifth-century manuscript with M. Tullius Cicero’s Pro M. Fonteio, the only extant evidence of this speech (Cic. Font. 1-6). M. Fonteius was a propraetor in Gallia Narbonensis around 74-72 BC and was charged with having taken illegal extortions from the Gauls. He used these resources in support of M. Pompey and Metellus Pius in their campaign against Q. Sertorius in Spain. Cicero undertook the defence of Fonteius around the year 69 BC and no evidence remains of the outcome of his trial. The text was copied in Uncial script in the fifth century, and is arranged in two columns with 19 lines per page, each line measuring ca. 50 mm wide.
Pal. lat. 24, f. 77v and Vat. lat. 10696, f. 1r. Uncial script
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