Light yellow
Pastedown and one flyleaf to the left; no endleaves to the right, where, instead, the last leaf of the gathering has been used as pastedown. A stub is visible after the first and before the last gathering. On the left flyleaf there is a watermark.
Numbers and former shelfmarks: N 7
on Benz 11
on 104
on
The textual transmission of Julius Africanus has long been under discussion. The so-called Apparatus Bellicus is nowadays considered a compilatory product from the late 9th or early 10th century Constantinople, a collection of earlier tactical fragments along with some minor authorial additions. The first part of it (ch. 1–30, following Thevenot’s numbering; from
Rubrics and initials in
Pen-drawn illustrations in
In the anonymous text
Most of the illustrations seem to have been sketched by Nicholas de la Torre. At least the captions are in his hand and the same ink was used for the drawings. The exception to this are the geometrical figures on