vari - canon misc 378 - 2014

The codex (Canon. Misc. 378), containing a substantial collection of Latin texts from antiquity and the early Middle Ages, whose text was copied in 1436 from that of the Codex Spirensis (Carolingian era, lost) in Basel on the occasion of the council, is preserved at the Bodleian Library in Oxford (facsimile edition and commentary 2014).

The codex presents an illustrative apparatus derived, like the text, from an original of Late Antique date. The 109 miniatures were executed by Peronet Lamy, a miniaturist who had worked for Amadeus VIII of Savoy, later Pope Felice V the antipope.

The textual apparatus contains a substantial amount of data concerning geography and travel itineraries, but also includes the list of provinces, the topographies of the cities of Rome and Constantinople, a text on res militaris, in particular on the war machines of the 4th century, and a treatise on the administrative structure of the Roman Empire after its division.

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