Fragment of an agrimensor manuscript, which evidently came to Basel
from Fulda at the beginning of the 16th century in order to serve
Johannes Sichardus in 1628 as a master copy for printing in the
printshop of Henricus Petrus. Poggio Bracciolini should have seen
it in Fulda in 1417. The manuscript was produced in the first half
of the 9th century in Fulda. In the second half of the 16th century
it was used in Basel as manuscript waste for bindings. The
publication of this fragment by Martin Steinmann in 1992 refuted
the hypothesis, held until very recently, that the manuscript Rom,
Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana Pal. lat. 1564 had been the model
for Sichardus.
