The ''Codex Salmasianus'' is a Latin

uncial Uncial is a majuscule script (written entirely in capital letters) commonly used from the 4th to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes. Uncial letters were used to write Greek and Latin, as well as Gothic, and are the current style for ...

manuscript named after its former owner, the French philologist

Claudius Salmasius Claude Saumaise (15 April 1588 – 3 September 1653), also known by the Latin name Claudius Salmasius, was a French classical scholar. Life Salmasius was born at Semur-en-Auxois in Burgundy (region), Burgundy. When Salmasius was sixteen, his fath ...

(1588–1653). According to

Alexander Riese Alexander Riese (2 June 1840, Frankfurt – 8 October 1924, Frankfurt) was a German classical scholar. An ''R'', after his surname, indicates the canonical numeration for poems surviving in the Anthologia Latina, of which he edited into a more cr ...

, the codex dates to the 7th or probably to the 8th century. Today it is a part of the

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at Paris (''Codex Parisinus Latinus 10318''). The Codex Salmasianus is the most important collection of minor Latin poems. It is denoted by the letter ''A'' in the editions of the ''Anthologia Latina'' (Riese 1894, Shackleton Bailey 1982) and by the letter ''S'' in most editions of the ''

Pervigilium Veneris ''Pervigilium Veneris'' (or ''The Vigil of Venus'') is a Latin poem of uncertain date, variously assigned to the 2nd, 4th or 5th centuries. It is sometimes thought to have been by the poet Tiberianus (poet), Tiberianus, because of strong simil ...

''. It is also named ''Carmina Codicis Parisini 10318 Olim Salmasiani'' Poems of the Paris Codex 10318, Formerly [belonging toSalmasianus"">elonging_to.html" ;"title="Poems of the Paris Codex 10318, Formerly [belonging to">Poems of the Paris Codex 10318, Formerly [belonging toSalmasianus"

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External links

Codex Salmasianus via gallica.bnf.fr
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