Volume / Number: 1 / 74

CLA	74
Shelfmarks	Vatican City Italy Biblioteca del Vaticano Palatinus Lat. 24 (foll. 72, 79, 80, 82–85, 87–99, 102–121, 129–176) [palimpsest old]
Script	Rustic Capital
Date	III–IV (280 - 320)
Origin and Provenance	Origin uncertain. A scribe’s signature on foll. 173–172, the first page of a quire, seems to read: COTT.A.. SCRIBSIT. The Gellius was erased for rewriting ca. saec. VII–VIII. The MS was probably at Lorsch during the eighth century. Later it was at Heidelberg, whence it was removed to the Vatican in 1623.
CLA Vol.	1
TM Number	TM 66170
Support	Parchment
Contents	Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (fragm.).
Script Commentary	Script is Rustic capital of a striking type, written probably with a reed, and showing marked contrast between fine and thick strokes an example of extreme technical ability: B, F, L often rise above the other letters; F, G and last stroke of U descend below the base line; Y has a peculiar shape a straight stem supporting a slanting s-like top. Blank spaces carefully calculated were left for the Greek texts cited but were never filled.
Notes	☛CLA date (IV) changed to follow: G. Cavallo, Pap. Flor. 36 (2005), pp. 207–8. ☛DCLP.
Facsimile URL	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Pal.lat.24/0314
Collections	CLA information changed Script: MSS with named scribes (John 1995 with additions)
Last modified	26 March 2022