XV-XVI. Florence, Laurentian Library MS. San Marco 284, written in Caroline minuscule of the tenth century. See above, [pp. 44 f]. Our plates reproduce fols. 56v and 57r, containing the end of Book II and the beginning of Book III.
XVII-XVIII. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. L 4. 3. See above, [pp. 39 f]. The lacuna in Book VIII (216, 27-227, 10 Keil) is indicated by a cross (+) on fol. 136v (plate XVIIa). The missing text is supplied on added leaves by the hand shown on plate XVIIb (= fol. 144). The variants are in the hand of Budaeus. Plate XVIII contains fols. 32v and 33, showing the end of Book II and the beginning of Book III.
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XIX. Aldine edition of Pliny’s Letters, Venice 1508. Our plate
reproduces the end of Book II and the beginning of Book III.
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XX. Specimens of three uncial manuscripts:
(a) Berlin, Königl. Bibl. Lat. 4º 298, circa a. 447.
(b) New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library,
MS. M. 462, circa a. 500 (exact size).
(c) Fulda, Codex Bonifatianus 1, ante
a. 547.
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[Plate XX]
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