Vergilius Vaticanus

The Vergilius Vaticanus
The Vergilius Vaticanus
	Ascanius and Trojan council, Folio 73 verso
Also known as	Vatican Virgil
Language	Latin
Date	4th century
Provenance	Monastery of Saint-Martin
Manuscript(s)	MSCod.Vat. lat. 3225
Sources	Aeneid, Georgics

The Vergilius Vaticanus, also known as Vatican Virgil^[1] (Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3225), is a Late Antique illuminated manuscript containing fragments of Virgil's Aeneid and Georgics. It was made in Rome in around 400 CE,^[2] and is one of the oldest surviving sources for the text of the Aeneid. It is the oldest and one of only three ancient illustrated manuscripts of classical literature.

^ Wright, David H (1993). The Vatican Vergil. Los Angeles: University of California Press.
^ Ingo F. Walther, Norbert Wolf, 2005, Codices illustres, The world’s most famous illuminated manuscripts, Köln, Taschen. p. 52