Manuscript

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. sir. 217

Codicology

Produced: 16th century
Current Location: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, Vatican
Manuscript Type: Miscellany
Physiologus Version: Syriac
Language: Syriac
Folios: 334
Illustrated: No
Media: Paper
Sample page - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Vat. sir. 217
Folio 212r

Description

The Syriac version of the Physiologus is on folio 212r-219r. Recorded title: Historia Animalium.

This is the manuscript used for the Tychsen edition (Olaus Gerhardus Tychsen, Physiologus Syrus, sev Historia animalium XXXII in S.S. memoratorum, Syriace, e codice Bibliothecae Vaticanae nunc primum edidit, vertit et illustravit, 1795). Tychsen made a handwritten copy of the manuscript for his own use (now Universitätsbibliothek Rostock, Mss. orient. 194); see Facsimile 2 below.

Additional Descriptions

Additional description 1
Additional description 2 (page 503-504)
Additional description 3

Editions and Facsimiles

Printed editions

Tychsen, Physiologus Syrus, sev Historia animalium XXXII in S.S. memoratorum, Syriace, e codice Bibliothecae Vaticanae nunc primum edidit, vertit et illustravit

Digital facsimiles

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (low quality monochrome images)
Universitätsbibliothek Rostock Mss. orient.194 (17th century copy made by Tychsen)