[Plate XIII][Plate XIV]

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.

[Plate XV][Plate XVI]

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.

[Plate XVII][Plate XVIII]
XIX. Aldine edition of Pliny’s Letters, Venice 1508. Our plate reproduces the end of Book II and the beginning of Book III. [Plate XIX]
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. [Plate XX]