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Longest Text in Latin

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What are the longest texts, say top 5, transmitted via manuscript from the Classical/Early Medieval period?

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  I would bet that top 1 is either Euclid's Elements either the Bible. They weren't originally written in latin but old translations are known.
  
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  The Codex Amiatinus is the Vulgate text. It comes to more than 1000 leaves and weighs in at 75 pounds. But that's not really what I'm looking for, the Bible being an amalgam of lots of texts. And I guess there might have been complete one before Bede, but I'm not sure of that. Thanks for the suggestions though. Will research Euclid and Isidore and report back.
  
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  Can you define length? Number of pages in modern print? In Ancient manuscript? In number of sentences? Words? Letters? I think in words or letters will be quite difficult to compare...
  
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  Link to Isidore penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Isidore/…
  
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  Euclid Elements, Adelard's translation ed. HLLBusard.(Studies and Texts 64)Toronto 1983 worldcat.org/title/…
  
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What are the longest texts, say top 5, transmitted via manuscript from the Classical/Early Medieval period?

classical-latin medieval-latin

share|improve this question

asked May 12 at 17:56

DWPorterDWPorter

262

• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I would bet that top 1 is either Euclid's Elements either the Bible. They weren't originally written in latin but old translations are known.
  
  – Blincer
  May 12 at 18:37
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  3
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  The Codex Amiatinus is the Vulgate text. It comes to more than 1000 leaves and weighs in at 75 pounds. But that's not really what I'm looking for, the Bible being an amalgam of lots of texts. And I guess there might have been complete one before Bede, but I'm not sure of that. Thanks for the suggestions though. Will research Euclid and Isidore and report back.
  
  – DWPorter
  May 12 at 21:21
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Can you define length? Number of pages in modern print? In Ancient manuscript? In number of sentences? Words? Letters? I think in words or letters will be quite difficult to compare...
  
  – Cerberus♦
  May 12 at 21:25
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Link to Isidore penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Isidore/…
  
  – Hugh
  May 12 at 21:33
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Euclid Elements, Adelard's translation ed. HLLBusard.(Studies and Texts 64)Toronto 1983 worldcat.org/title/…
  
  – Hugh
  May 13 at 0:21
  

  
  
  
  

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What are the longest texts, say top 5, transmitted via manuscript from the Classical/Early Medieval period?

classical-latin medieval-latin

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The longest in one package may be
Codex Amiatinus, https://smarthistory.org/codex-amiatinus/ which is the earliest complete text of the Bible.

Isidore of Seville's Etymologies aimed to include all knowledge in one volume. Text

In monastery Libraries the commonest large multivolume work with most pages was Gregory's Commentary on Job, but this is partly because it was dinnertime reading in big script designed to be read by candle-light.

The longest classical texts change abruptly with the move from the scroll to the codex. Just as there is a jump from manuscript to printed book.

Among the printed books:
Cicero Orationes in 12 Volumes 1642;
Ovid 3 volumes.1682
Augustine Opera

Before that
Euclid in fifteen books (translated, I think, by Boethius c.500 Gk to Latin (Lost) and by Adelard of Bath c1100 Arabic to Latin.)
Vergilius Aeneid in six books.
Lucretius DRM in six books.
Livy histories

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Cerberus made this valid point:

Can you define length? Number of pages in modern print? In Ancient manuscript? In number of sentences? Words? Letters? I think in words or letters will be quite difficult to compare...

In fact, if we were to merely define length by size, then the longest text would be the Codex Gigas (13th century though), which is the largest manuscript of the Bible ever made (before the printing press) (it also contains other texts though; see article). Here is a picture, just to given a idea of its size:

There are other examples of massive medieval bibles (e.g. here).

Another option to add to the list is Saturnalia, written around 400 AD by somebody called Macrobius. According to this site:

Although we only have parts of it, this book, written in the 5c A.D., is one of the longest extant works from Late Antiquity.

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The longest in one package may be
Codex Amiatinus, https://smarthistory.org/codex-amiatinus/ which is the earliest complete text of the Bible.

Isidore of Seville's Etymologies aimed to include all knowledge in one volume. Text

In monastery Libraries the commonest large multivolume work with most pages was Gregory's Commentary on Job, but this is partly because it was dinnertime reading in big script designed to be read by candle-light.

The longest classical texts change abruptly with the move from the scroll to the codex. Just as there is a jump from manuscript to printed book.

Among the printed books:
Cicero Orationes in 12 Volumes 1642;
Ovid 3 volumes.1682
Augustine Opera

Before that
Euclid in fifteen books (translated, I think, by Boethius c.500 Gk to Latin (Lost) and by Adelard of Bath c1100 Arabic to Latin.)
Vergilius Aeneid in six books.
Lucretius DRM in six books.
Livy histories

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edited May 13 at 0:23

answered May 12 at 18:39

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5

The longest in one package may be
Codex Amiatinus, https://smarthistory.org/codex-amiatinus/ which is the earliest complete text of the Bible.

Isidore of Seville's Etymologies aimed to include all knowledge in one volume. Text

In monastery Libraries the commonest large multivolume work with most pages was Gregory's Commentary on Job, but this is partly because it was dinnertime reading in big script designed to be read by candle-light.

The longest classical texts change abruptly with the move from the scroll to the codex. Just as there is a jump from manuscript to printed book.

Among the printed books:
Cicero Orationes in 12 Volumes 1642;
Ovid 3 volumes.1682
Augustine Opera

Before that
Euclid in fifteen books (translated, I think, by Boethius c.500 Gk to Latin (Lost) and by Adelard of Bath c1100 Arabic to Latin.)
Vergilius Aeneid in six books.
Lucretius DRM in six books.
Livy histories

share|improve this answer

edited May 13 at 0:23

answered May 12 at 18:39

HughHugh

6,2372819

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The longest in one package may be
Codex Amiatinus, https://smarthistory.org/codex-amiatinus/ which is the earliest complete text of the Bible.

Isidore of Seville's Etymologies aimed to include all knowledge in one volume. Text

In monastery Libraries the commonest large multivolume work with most pages was Gregory's Commentary on Job, but this is partly because it was dinnertime reading in big script designed to be read by candle-light.

The longest classical texts change abruptly with the move from the scroll to the codex. Just as there is a jump from manuscript to printed book.

Among the printed books:
Cicero Orationes in 12 Volumes 1642;
Ovid 3 volumes.1682
Augustine Opera

Before that
Euclid in fifteen books (translated, I think, by Boethius c.500 Gk to Latin (Lost) and by Adelard of Bath c1100 Arabic to Latin.)
Vergilius Aeneid in six books.
Lucretius DRM in six books.
Livy histories

share|improve this answer

edited May 13 at 0:23

answered May 12 at 18:39

HughHugh

6,2372819

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edited May 13 at 0:23

answered May 12 at 18:39

HughHugh

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answered May 12 at 18:39

HughHugh

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answered May 12 at 18:39

HughHugh

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2

Cerberus made this valid point:

Can you define length? Number of pages in modern print? In Ancient manuscript? In number of sentences? Words? Letters? I think in words or letters will be quite difficult to compare...

In fact, if we were to merely define length by size, then the longest text would be the Codex Gigas (13th century though), which is the largest manuscript of the Bible ever made (before the printing press) (it also contains other texts though; see article). Here is a picture, just to given a idea of its size:

There are other examples of massive medieval bibles (e.g. here).

Another option to add to the list is Saturnalia, written around 400 AD by somebody called Macrobius. According to this site:

Although we only have parts of it, this book, written in the 5c A.D., is one of the longest extant works from Late Antiquity.

share|improve this answer

answered May 16 at 8:15

luchonacholuchonacho

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2

Cerberus made this valid point:

Can you define length? Number of pages in modern print? In Ancient manuscript? In number of sentences? Words? Letters? I think in words or letters will be quite difficult to compare...

In fact, if we were to merely define length by size, then the longest text would be the Codex Gigas (13th century though), which is the largest manuscript of the Bible ever made (before the printing press) (it also contains other texts though; see article). Here is a picture, just to given a idea of its size:

There are other examples of massive medieval bibles (e.g. here).

Another option to add to the list is Saturnalia, written around 400 AD by somebody called Macrobius. According to this site:

Although we only have parts of it, this book, written in the 5c A.D., is one of the longest extant works from Late Antiquity.

share|improve this answer

answered May 16 at 8:15

luchonacholuchonacho

6,80951763

add a comment | 

Cerberus made this valid point:

Can you define length? Number of pages in modern print? In Ancient manuscript? In number of sentences? Words? Letters? I think in words or letters will be quite difficult to compare...

In fact, if we were to merely define length by size, then the longest text would be the Codex Gigas (13th century though), which is the largest manuscript of the Bible ever made (before the printing press) (it also contains other texts though; see article). Here is a picture, just to given a idea of its size:

There are other examples of massive medieval bibles (e.g. here).

Another option to add to the list is Saturnalia, written around 400 AD by somebody called Macrobius. According to this site:

Although we only have parts of it, this book, written in the 5c A.D., is one of the longest extant works from Late Antiquity.

share|improve this answer

answered May 16 at 8:15

luchonacholuchonacho

6,80951763

share|improve this answer

answered May 16 at 8:15

luchonacholuchonacho

6,80951763

answered May 16 at 8:15

luchonacholuchonacho

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answered May 16 at 8:15

luchonacholuchonacho

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