Codex Vindobonensis 795

{{Short description|9th-century manuscript}}

{{No footnotes|date=May 2021}}{{Infobox manuscript

| name = Codex Vindobonensis 795

| Date = c. 798

| Author(s) = Alcuin, etc.

| Contents = Assorted letters of Alcuin, guidebooks to the topography of Rome

| Compiled by = Arno of Salzburg, etc.

}}

The Codex Vindobonensis 795 (Vienna Austrian National Library Codex) is a 9th-century manuscript, most likely compiled in 798 or shortly thereafter (after Arno of Salzburg returned from Rome to become archbishop).{{Cite journal|last=Leyser|first=Conrad|date=2000|title=The temptations of cult: Roman martyr piety in the age of Gregory the Great|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1468-0254.00071|journal=Early Medieval Europe|publisher=Blackwell Publishers Ltd|volume=9|issue=3 |pages=289–307|doi=10.1111/1468-0254.00071 |s2cid=162241111 |url-access=subscription}} It contains letters and treatises by Alcuin, including a discussion of the Gothic alphabet. It also contains a description of the Old English runes.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}}

The Codex Vindobonensis 795 is a collection of letters of Alcuin, as compiled by Arno of Salzburg; it also contains two texts about the topography of Rome, particularly its shrines: the Notitia ecclesiarium urbis Romae (Notice of the church of the city of Rome) and the De locis sanctis martyrum quae sunt foris civitatis Romae (The locations of the holy martyrs outside the city of Rome), neither of which were written by Alcuin. The manuscript seems to be an attempt to imagine the reconstruction of Rome{{Clarify|date=May 2021}}, as it also contains correspondence between Arno and Alcuin about the rebuilding of the monastery of St. Stephen's at St. Paul's{{Clarify|date=May 2021}} as well as commentary on the Epistle to the Romans.