Vergilius Romanus
The Vergilius Romanus (Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3867) is a 5th century illuminated manuscript of the works of Virgil. It contains the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid. It is one of the oldest and most important Vergilian mauscript.
Based on the style of some aspects of the illumination it has been suggested that the manuscript was produced in Britain. The manuscript spent much of the middle ages in the Abbey of St. Denis.
It is 335 by 324 mm. There are 309 vellum folios. It was written in a rustic majuscule. There are 18 lines per page. At the beginning of each section there is a framed miniature. There are 19 miniatures.
The Vergilius Romanus is not to be confused with the Vergilius Vaticanus (Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3225) or the Vergilius Augusteus, other ancients Vergilian manuscripts in the Biblioteca Apostolica.
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