Antiquissimi Virgiliani codicis : fragmenta et picturae ex Bibliotheca vaticana
An 1741 Roman engraved facsimile of fragments from a late antique manuscript of Virgil's Aeneid held in the Vatican Library, published by the Chalcographia of the Camera Apostolica and intended for scholars and collectors of classical antiquity. The engravings are small, linear narrative scenes with Latin labels, showing figures in simple landscape settings, and a designer might take their compact episodic layout, labelled captions and stiff, frieze-like poses as a reference for classical narrative image sequences.
