Vat. Barb. Lat. 144

f. 1ar


Note: A faded ancient lunar calendar followed by a Greek alphabet.

f. 1av
Roberti 1906, 67-68 and 49-50

Title: Liber Cartulari
Note: Palimpsest: some fragments from the Carta libelli perpetualis and Carta mutui gathered by the Paduan notary Corradino in 1223; this text was written in two columuns trasversally oriented.

ff. 1r-243v
Prisc. ars 1, 1, 1-16, 8
inc.: cum omnis eloquentiae; expl.: siderea polus
Title: Priscianus grammaticus caesariensis iuliano consuli ac patricio salutem
Note: The witness does not feature any additamenta nor subscription.

f. 117v


Title: Unidentified text
Note: Palimpsest: this unidentified text was written on an original blank folium in the 13^th, later the text was erased and replaced with the missing piece of Priscian's Ars (in the 14^th-15th century).

ff. 117r-117v
Prisc. ars 7, 71-7, 75
inc.: cum omnes aliae terminationes; expl.: et sciendum tamen, quod rarissime haec
Note: Partially palimpsest: this original missing piece of Priscinan's text was added later on an original blank folium, probably in the 14^th-15th century.

ff. 127r-130v
Prisc. ars 8, 13-8, 33
inc.: ut ante ostendimus; expl.: perior esse. Terentius
Note: This part of Priscian's text was addded in 14^th, when the manuscript was restored through the introduction of a recent inner binion (ff. 127-130) in the 17^th quire, probably in order to reintegrate the missing text. To do so was employed a bifolium 127/130 containing as underlying text a drawing in silver point.

ff. 127r-127v


Title: Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
Note: A half of a drawing in silver point dated to 13^th-14th (cf. Degenhart – Schmitt 1968, pp. 1-20).

ff. 130r-130v


Note: A half of a drawing in silver point dated to 13^th-14th (cf. Degenhart – Schmitt 1968, pp. 1-20).

f. 244r


Note: Greek alphabet and beginning of Psalm 47

ff. 1ar-244v

Material: parchment

Guard sheet material: paper

Guard leaf count: 2

Leaf numbering: modern foliation starting with the ancient endleaf page, numbered as 1a;

Quires: beginning with the hair side; collation: 1-2⁸ (15) 3^10-2 (23) [the third and the sixth folium are without the respective conjugate folium] 4⁸ (31), 5⁶ (37), 6-16⁸ (125), 17⁶ (131) [the central bifolium and the intermediate one are two later restorations; while the outer bifolium is original], 18-26⁸ (203), 27-28⁴ (211), 29-31⁸ (235), 32⁹ (244) [the second folium is without conjugate leaf];

Quire numbering: ancient quire numbering in Roma figures on the verso of the last folium of each quire [only the quire 28^th has not been charted];

Rulings: hard-pt • system: Leroy 3, 4 • Muzerelle 2-2 / 0 / 0 / C • description: full page with 28 writing lines out of 28 ruled lines; unit of ruling 8 mm; on-line pricking

Leaf size: 220×289 mm (46r)

Written area size: 156×220 mm (46r)

State: The ancient anterior endleaf of the manuscript (f. 1a) was orinally blank, but in the 13^th century it was written on recto and on verso. This latter text was then erased. Some folios are palimpsests. F. 117v was already compiled in 13^th, then erased in 14^th to restore Priscian text. Ff. 127-130 have been added to the 17^th quire to complete the Priscian text, but the intermediate bifolium 127/130 previously hosted a drawing in silver point, then rewritten with a portion of Ars.

Binding: leather ivory binding made in 1897 as one can read on the pastdown Legato nel 1897; on the same page there are the different shalfmarks of the manuscript: the actual one on the left, Barb. lat. 144, at the centre, num. 1666, and on the lower part IX. 13. The manuscript has recently been restored in the restoration workshop of the Vatican Library (on the 11^th July 1966)

main (Ancient Greek and Latin): Caroline minuscule: French

Hand(s)

C (ff. 1r-116v) Rounded and elegant Caroline. Peculiar letters are g with a hook-tail, Capital n in the minuscule, the oblique trait of x descends to the left below the baseline. Particular form for Capital D, ending poited at the top. Greek letters mixe up Latin and Greek alphabet: alpha in Uncial a, or in the Greek majuscule; my in Capital shape of m or in the western symbol for my; ny in Capital shape of n; long csi.
Regular abbreviations: Regular abbreviations

C (ff. 118r-126v) see above

C (ff. 131r-243v) see above

inferior (Latin): Gothic textura (textualis)

Hand(s)

B (f. 1av)

ca. 1200-ca. 1280

main (Latin): Gothic textura (textualis)

Hand(s)

A (f. 1ar)