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unusual facts about Codex Vaticanus Ottobonianus Latinus 1829


Codex Vaticanus Ottobonianus Latinus 1829

Later the codex was lost: it was probably housed in the Vatican Library for a very long time, hidden under a false catalogue number, until it was rediscovered in 1896 by William Gardner Hale.


Poetry of Catullus

Some of this material comes from the X manuscript because it is also present in G. The R manuscript, lost through an error in cataloguing, was dramatically rediscovered in a dusty corner of the Vatican Library by the American scholar William Gardner Hale in 1896.


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