The Verona Palimpsest (or ''Fragmentum Veronese'') is a

manuscript A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand – or, once practical typewriters became available, typewritten – as opposed to mechanically printing, printed or repr ...

, dated about the 494 AD, which contains a

Christian Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρι ...

collection of Church Orders in

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

. The manuscript, which contains many

lacuna Lacuna (plural lacunas or lacunae) may refer to: Related to the meaning "gap" * Lacuna (manuscripts), a gap in a manuscript, inscription, text, painting, or musical work **Great Lacuna, a lacuna of eight leaves where there was heroic Old Norse po ...

e, is the only source of the Latin version of the

Apostolic Tradition The ''Apostolic Tradition'' (or ''Egyptian Church Order'') is an early Christian treatise which belongs to the genre of the ancient Church Orders. It has been described to be of "incomparable importance as a source of information about church lif ...

Description

This manuscript is preserved in the Chapter House Library (Biblioteca Capitolare) in

Verona Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Northern Italy, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city Comune, municipality in the region and the ...

and is numbered LV (olim 53). It is a

palimpsest In textual studies, a palimpsest () is a manuscript page, either from a scroll or a book, from which the text has been scraped or washed off so that the page can be reused for another document. Parchment was made of lamb, calf, or kid skin an ...

in which the ''Sententiae'' of

Isidore of Seville Isidore of Seville ( la, Isidorus Hispalensis; c. 560 – 4 April 636) was a Spanish scholar, theologian, and archbishop of Seville. He is widely regarded, in the words of 19th-century historian Montalembert, as "the last scholar of ...

in the 8th century has been written over the previous content, which includes: *

Didascalia Apostolorum ''Didascalia Apostolorum'', or just ''Didascalia'', is a Christian legal treatise which belongs to the genre of the Church Orders. It presents itself as being written by the Twelve Apostles at the time of the Council of Jerusalem; however, scho ...

(of which 32 leaves of 86 total were preserved) *

Apostolic Church-Ordinance The ''Apostolic Church-Ordinance'' (or ''Apostolic Church-Order'', ''Apostolic Church-Directory'' or ''Constitutio Ecclesiastica Apostolorum'') is an Oriental Orthodox Christian treatise which belongs to ''genre'' of the Church Orders. The work ...

(of which 1.5 leaves of 4.5 total were preserved) * the ''Egyptian Church Order'', better known as

, (of which 6.5 leaves of 11.5 total were preserved). Chapters 9 through 20, 22 through 25, and 39 and 40 are missing completely. * a leaf containing

Fasti consulares In ancient Rome, the ''fasti'' (Latin plural) were chronological or calendar-based lists, or other diachronic records or plans of official and religiously sanctioned events. After Rome's decline, the word ''fasti'' continued to be used for simil ...

running to 494, which allows for dating of the manuscript.

Publication

This Palimpsest was discovered in 1896 and fully published in 1900 by

Edmund Hauler Edmund Hauler (17 November 1859, in Buda – 1 April 1941, in Vienna) was an Austrian classical philology, classical philologist born in Ofen to a Danube Swabian Germans, German family. His father, Johann Hauler (1829–1888) was also a classical ph ...

. A further edition was published by Erik Tidner in 1963Erik Tidner, ''Didascaliae apostolorum Canonum ecclesiasticorum Traditionis apostolicae versiones Latinae'', TU 75, Berlin 1963

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External links

Edmund Hauler, ''Didascaliae apostolorum fragmenta ueronensia Latina'', 1900
full text in Latin Ancient church orders 5th-century Christian texts Palimpsests

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