Verona Palimpsest
The Verona Palimpsest is a manuscript, dated about the 494 AD, 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:- Didascalia Apostolorum
- Apostolic Church-Ordinance
- the Egyptian Church Order, better known as Apostolic Tradition,. Chapters 9 through 20, 22 through 25, and 39 and 40 are missing completely.
- a leaf containing Fasti consulares running to 494, which allows for dating of the manuscript.