No. |
Name. |
Where Produced. |
Where Kept. |
Date. |
Remarks. |
1 |
Vergil (fragment) |
...... |
Vatican Lib., Rome, Cod. Vat. 3225 |
3rd or 4th cent. |
Doubtful which is the older. |
2 |
Vergil |
...... |
Vat. Lib. 3867 |
4th cent. |
3 |
Rom. Calend.(f.) |
...... |
Imp. Lib., Vienna |
„ |
|
4 |
Genesis (f.) |
...... |
„ |
5th cent. |
Gold and silver text on purple vellum; 88 miniatures. |
5 |
Genesis (f.) |
...... |
Brit. Mus., Cott. Oth. B. 6 |
„ |
Much burnt in 1731. |
6 |
Iliad (f.) |
...... |
Ambros. Lib., Milan |
„ |
Fine handwriting and clever pictures. |
7 |
Joshua (f. of Roll) |
...... |
Vat. Lib., Rome |
...... |
15 leaves, 32 ft. long, 11 in. wide. Contains from ch. 222 to 1018, brush outlines to miniatures. Rivers, etc., personified in Byzantine manner. |
8 |
Dioscorides, etc. |
...... |
Imp. Lib., Vienna |
c. 500-5 |
Personifications of abstract qualities. |
9 |
Bible of Montamiata |
...... |
Laurent. Lib., Florence |
c. 540 |
Valuable as a theological document, but poor work, and in bad condition. |
10 |
Syriac Gospels |
Monastery of Zagfba, in Mesopotamia |
„ |
c. 586 |
Brought to Florence in 1497. Remarkable Crucifixion, see Byzantine, 1. |
11 |
Terence |
...... |
Nat. Lib., Paris |
9th cent. |
Copy of a 5th-cent. MS. pen-drawings. |
12 |
Pentateuch |
Tours |
Nat. Lib., Paris, Nouv. acq. 2334 |
7th cent. |
Called the Ashburnham Pentateuch; 19 large miniatures. |
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