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The Manuscripts of the "Chronography/Calendar of 354AD" |
 | | In ancient Rome a wealthy Christian aristocrat named Valentinus received a codex containing an illustrated calendar for the year 354, together with a group of unillustrated documents, including a list of names of the consuls, prefects and bishops of the city Rome to that date. |
| | The illustrations that accompanied the text were the earliest full-page illustrations in a codex in the history of Western art, and may also have been executed by Filocalus. |
| | The ancient codex still existed in the 9th century, when, because of its associations with the age of Constantine, a complete and faithful copy was made (the now lost Luxemburgensis). |
| www.tertullian.org /rpearse/manuscripts/chronography_of_354.htm (2187 words) |
