NOVITÀ SULLA FORTUNA DEL "CODEX UNICUS" DI VELLEIO PATERCOLO

This article explores the fate of the only manuscript that preserved the work of the Roman historian Velleius Paterculus after its discovery by the Alsatian humanist Beatus Rhenanus in 1515. By better examining some 18th-century documents, it is possible to demonstrate that by that time the manuscript was no longer to be found in the library of the abbey of Murbach in Alsace. Its loss rather took place right after the publication of the editio princeps in 1520-1521, or, at the latest, in the course of the 17th century.