Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Vergilius Romanus is a 5th-century illustrated manuscript of Virgil's works, held at the Vatican's Biblioteca Apostolica under the call number Cod. Vat. lat. 3867. It contains the Aeneid, the Georgics, and portions of the Eclogues, written in rustic capitals on 309 vellum folios measuring 332 by 323 millimetres.
Nineteen illustrations survive in the Vergilius Romanus, painted by at least two anonymous artists. The first artist produced a single miniature on folio 1 recto, while the second artist painted the remaining miniatures.
The place of production of the Vergilius Romanus is undetermined. Art historian Martin Henig proposed, based on aspects of the illumination style, that it was made in Britain. If correct, it would be the oldest surviving British codex.
The Vergilius Romanus is one of the few surviving illustrated classical manuscripts and captures an early transition away from classical artistic conventions. The second artist's work shows flattened figures, no naturalistic depiction of space, and faces rendered only in frontal or full-profile views, a style scholars have linked to Roman floor mosaics.
The Vergilius Romanus was held at the Abbey of St Denis until the 15th century. How it arrived at St Denis, and how it subsequently came to the Vatican, is not known.
The Vergilius Romanus (Cod. Vat. lat. 3867) and the Vergilius Vaticanus (Cod. Vat. lat. 3225) are two separate ancient Virgilian manuscripts held at the Vatican's Biblioteca Apostolica. A third manuscript, the Vergilius Augusteus, is also distinct from both.