sentences:  It contains material from the 7th century BC until 600 AD and later on was the main part of the "Greek Anthology" which also included the "Anthology of Planudes" and more material.The manuscript of the "Palatine Anthology" was discovered by Saumaise (Salmasius) in 1606 in the Palatine library at Heidelberg (Codex Palatinus 23).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.