Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum
The Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum is a Roman book on land surveying which collects works by Siculus Flaccus, Frontinus, Agennius Urbicus, Hyginus Gromaticus and other writers. The text is preserved in the fifth or sixth-century uncial manuscript known as Codex Guelfferbytanus 36.23 Augusteus 2, held in the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel.[1] It is one of the few surviving non-literary and non-religious illuminated manuscripts from late antiquity. The text was first printed in 1554 by Adrianus Turnebus, under the title De Agrorum Conditionibus et Constitutionibus Limitum.
References[]
- ^ at the HAB Wolfenbüttel Archived 2005-02-13 at the Wayback Machine.
Further reading[]
- Weitzmann, Kurt, ed., Age of spirituality: late antique and early Christian art, third to seventh century, no. 188, 1979, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, ISBN 9780870991790; full text available online from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries
Categories:
- Illuminated manuscript stubs
- Latin texts
- Scientific illuminated manuscripts
- 6th-century manuscripts
- Herzog August Library