Palatine Anthology

The Palatine Anthology (or Anthologia Palatina), sometimes abbreviated AP, is the collection of Greek poems and epigrams discovered in 1606 in the Palatine Library in Heidelberg.

In 1623, after the Thirty Years' War, it was sent with the rest of the Palatine Library to Rome as a present from Maximilian I of Bavaria to Pope Gregory XV and it was kept in the Vatican Library.

The section of the manuscript which is kept today at the Library of the University of Heidelberg (MS Pal.

23) consists of pages 1–614, and the other part, housed in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, (Par.

One of the scribes made comments and additions and part of the manuscript was corrected by a Corrector.