Content:
Contains, in Latin and illustrated with painted miniatures: (f.
1r). Arbor consanguinitatis - (f.2r-v) Two excerpts from an
anonymous text on warfare. - (ff. 3r-24v, 25v-26v) Notitia
dignitatum omnium tam civilium quam militarium utriusque imperii
Romani. Incomplete (oriental part 3r-24v, western part 24v-26v). -
(ff. 2vv-25v) De montibus, portis, viis urbis Romae. - (ff.
28v-32v). Excerpts from an anonymous text on warfare. - Empty: ff.
27r-28r (except for running title: 'Praeses' on 27r), 33r-34r (pen
drawing on 34v). Note:
Codex (f) is an indirect copy of codex Oxford, BL, Canon. Misc. 378
(O), which itself is a direct copy (produced Basel, Switzerland,
1436) from a Carolingian codex (deriving from a late-antique
version) kept at Speyer cathedral library but lost somewhere
between 1542 and 1672. Cf. Maier 1968. - BPL 2869 is a fragment
from another copy of the lost Speyer codex
Binding: Post-medieval binding.
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Senguerdius & 1716):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:290399
Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294
Description (De Meyier 1973):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:108120
Also described by MMDC and A.W. Byvanckgenootschap (database RKD,
The Hague). Part of:
Vossius, I. (1618-1689) Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
16th century
