Roda Codex

The Roda Codex (Codex of Roda, Códice de Roda, Códice de Meyá) is a medieval manuscript, which represents a unique source for details of the 9th century Kingdom of Navarre and neighbouring principalities, now kept in Madrid, Real Academia de la Historia, cód. 78.

The codex is thought to date from the late 10th century, although there are additions from the 11th century, and was compiled in Navarre, perhaps at Nájera, written in a visigothic minuscule in several different hands with cursive marginal notes. It is 205 mm × 285 mm (8.1 in × 11.2 in), and contains 232 folios. The manuscript appears to have been at Nájera in the 12th century, and later in the archives of the cathedral at Roda de Isábena at the end of the 17th century. In the next century, it was acquired by the prior of Santa María de Meyá, passing into private hands, after which only copies and derivative manuscripts were available to the scholarly community until the rediscovery of the original manuscript in 1928.