Solinus, Caius Julius

Manuscript, 15th century
172 pp.

Biographical information:

Solinus, Latin grammarian and historian, lived in the first half of the third century. He compiled a work entitled Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium, which contained a description of the ancient world and remarks on natural history, religion, and social issues. It was based on Pliny, Mela, and others. The work was revised in the sixth century under the title Polyhistor.

Scope and Contents:

'C. Iulii Solini sive gramatici Polyhistor ab ipso editus et recognitus de situ orbis terrarum et de singulis mirabilibus quae in mundo habentur incipit,' 172 pp.

This manuscript, a palimpsest on vellum, is a mid-fifteenth-century copy of a work by Solinus written in Italy. The original writing is a notarial register or account book of the early fourteenth century, one leaf bearing the date 1308.

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