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Codex Vaticanus Graecus 64, is a Greek manuscript written on parchment, housed at the
Vatican Library The Vatican Apostolic Library ( la, Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, it, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana), more commonly known as the Vatican Library or informally as the Vat, is the library of the Holy See, located in Vatican City. Formally es ...
. It is written on 289 leaves (318 by 205 mm). It was written in
Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of ...
about the year 1270. The manuscript contains 35 letters, known as Socratic Letters, dated to the 2nd or 3rd century, and written by several authors. The text of the manuscript was published in 1637 by
Leone Allacci Leo Allatius (Greek: Λέων Αλλάτιος, ''Leon Allatios'', Λιωνής Αλάτζης, ''Lionis Allatzis''; Italian: ''Leone Allacci, Allacio''; Latin: ''Leo Allatius, Allacius''; c. 1586 – January 19, 1669) was a Greek scholar, theolog ...
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References

* Johannes Sykutris: ''Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Sokratikerbriefe'', in: ''Philologische Wochenschrift'' 48 (1928), pp. 1284–1295 {{DEFAULTSORT:Codex Vaticanus Graecus 0064 13th-century manuscripts Manuscripts of the Vatican Library