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Physical description: parchment, 285 × 233 mm, 286 pages, 1 col.; dismembered in the early 17th century with the second part now cataloged as Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, E. 147 sup.
Language: Latin
Date: 5th/6th cent. (lower text); 7th cent. (upper text)
Provenance: Bobbio Abbey
Contents:
Ascension of Isaiah (pp. 191, 192, 205, 206)
Additional contents: lower text includes epistles of Popes Leo and Damasus, works by Fronto and Symmachus, a Gothic commentary on the Gospel of John, fragments of Arian works (from the same codex as Ascension Isaiah), and others; upper text contains the Acta concilii Chalcedonis.
Catalogs:
Altamura, Irene, et al. “History of Palimpsest Photography in the Vatican Library: A Case Study of Fronto in Vat. lat. 5750.” Vatican Library Review 1 (2022): 149–78.
Leonardi, Claudio. “La Tradizione Latina dell’Ascensione d’Isaia.” Pages 189–233 in Ascensio Isaiae: Textus. Edited by Paolo Bettiolo et al. CCSA 7. Brepols: Turnhout, 1995 (description of manuscript, pp. 193–203).
__________. “Il testo dell’‘Ascensio Isaiae’ nel Vat. lat. 5750.” Cristianesimo nella Storia i (1980): 59–74.
Lowe, E. A. “Codices rescripti. A List of the Oldest Latin Palimpsests with Stray Observations on Their Origin.” Pages 67–113 in Mélanges Eugène Tisserant, V: Archives Vaticanes – histoire ecclesiastique, II. Studi e testi 235. Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolic Vaticana, 1964 (p. 107).
Mai, Angelo. Scriptorum veterum nova collectio e Vaticanis codicibus edita. 10 vols. Rome: Burliaeum, 1825–1838 (edition in vol. 3.2, pp. 238–39).
Ehrle, Franz, ed. M. Cornelii Frontonis aliorumque reliquiae quae codice Vaticano 5750 rescripto continentur. Codices e Vaticanis selecti 7. Milan, 1906 (facsimile).
Other online databases: BAV (bibliography); Biblissima; Earlier Latin Manuscripts; MIrA; Mirabile
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University, 3 September 2026.
