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Codex Vaticanus Graecus 64, is a Greek manuscript written on parchment, housed at the
Vatican Library The Vatican Apostolic Library (, ), more commonly known as the Vatican Library or informally as the Vat, is the library of the Holy See, located in Vatican City, and is the city-state's national library. It was formally established in 1475, alth ...
. It is written on 289 leaves (318 by 205 mm). It was written in
Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; ), also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece (with slightly over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area) and the capital cit ...
about the year 1270. The manuscript contains 35 letters, known as Socratic Letters, dated to the 2nd or 3rd century, and written by several authors. The text of the manuscript was published in 1637 by Leone Allacci.


References

* Johannes Sykutris: ''Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Sokratikerbriefe'', in: ''Philologische Wochenschrift'' 48 (1928), pp. 1284–1295 {{DEFAULTSORT:Codex Vaticanus Graecus 0064 13th-century manuscripts Manuscripts in the Vatican Library