Verona Palimpsest


The Verona Palimpsest is a manuscript, dated about the 494 CE, which contains a Christian collection of Church Orders in Latin. The manuscript, which contains many lacunae, is the only source of the Latin version of the Apostolic Tradition.

Description

This manuscript is preserved in the Chapter House Library in Verona and is numbered LV. It is a palimpsest in which the Sententiae of Isidore of Seville in the 8th century has been written over the previous content, which includes:
This Palimpsest was discovered in 1896 and fully published in 1900 by Edmund Hauler. A further edition was published by Erik Tidner in 1963