A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger / A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved / in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York

by E. A. Lowe; Edward Kennard Rand

[75.] Pp. 31 ff.

[76.] P. 33.

[77.] P. 30.

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[DESCRIPTION OF PLATES.]

Large plates are shown at about 3/4 original size.

Nos. I-XII. New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, MS. M. 462. A fragment of 12 pages of an uncial manuscript of the early sixth century. The fragment contains Pliny’s Letters, Book II, xx. 13—Book III, v. 4. For a detailed description, see above, [pp. 3 ff]. The entire fragment is here given, very slightly reduced. The exact size of the script is shown in Plate XX.

[Plate I]	[Plate II]	[Plate III]	[Plate IV]
[Plate V]	[Plate VI]	[Plate VII]	[Plate VIII]
[Plate IX]	[Plate X]	[Plate XI]	[Plate XII]

XIII-XIV. Florence, Laurentian Library MS. Ashburnham R 98, known as Codex Bellovacensis (B) or Riccardianus (R), written in Caroline minuscule of the ninth century. See above, [p. 44]. Our plates reproduce fols. 9 and 9^v (slightly reduced), containing the end of Book II and the beginning of Book III.