The Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum, a Roman

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 treatise on land surveying is preserved in the manuscript known as Codex Guelfferbytanus 36.23 Augusteus 2 – a 5th or 6th century illuminated manuscript

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. It is one of the few surviving illustrated, non-literary or non-religious manuscript

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s from late antiquity

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. The text is written in an uncial

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 script, with red letters indicating the beginnings of paragraphs.

The manuscript is preserved in the Herzog August Bibliothek

Herzog August Bibliothek

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, in Wolfenbüttel

Wolfenbüttel

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