Verona Palimpsest
The Verona Palimpsest (or Fragmentum Veronese) is a manuscript, dated about the 494 AD, which contains a Christian collection of Church Orders in Latin.[1] The manuscript, which contains many lacunae, is the only source of the Latin version of the Apostolic Tradition.
Description[edit]
This manuscript is preserved in the Chapter House Library (Biblioteca Capitolare) in Verona and is numbered LV (olim 53). It is a palimpsest in which the Sententiae of Isidore of Seville in the 8th century has been written over the previous content, which includes:
- Didascalia Apostolorum (of which 32 leaves of 86 total were preserved)[2]
- Apostolic Church-Ordinance (of which 1.5 leaves of 4.5 total were preserved)[2]
- the Egyptian Church Order, better known as Apostolic Tradition, (of which 6.5 leaves of 11.5 total were preserved).[2] Chapters 9 through 20, 22 through 25, and 39 and 40 are missing completely.
- a leaf containing Fasti consulares running to 494, which allows for dating of the manuscript. [3]
Publication[edit]
This Palimpsest was discovered in 1896 and fully published in 1900 by Edmund Hauler.[4] A further edition was published by Erik Tidner in 1963[5]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Bradshaw, Paul F. (2002). The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship. Oxford University Press. pp. 75, 88. ISBN 978-0-19-521732-2.
- ^ a b c Steimer, Bruno (1992). Vertex traditionis: die Gattung der altchristlichen Kirchenordnungen. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 106–113. ISBN 978-3-11-013460-5.
- ^ Peretto, Elio (1996). Tradizione Apostolica. pp. 19–21. ISBN 88-311-3133-8.
- ^ Edmund Hauler, Didascaliae apostolorum fragmenta ueronensia Latina. Accedunt canonum qui dicuntur Apostolorum et Aegyptiorum reliquae, Leipzig 1900
- ^ Erik Tidner, Didascaliae apostolorum Canonum ecclesiasticorum Traditionis apostolicae versiones Latinae, TU 75, Berlin 1963
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- Edmund Hauler, Didascaliae apostolorum fragmenta ueronensia Latina, 1900: full text in Latin