Part 2 — 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.

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. 56^v and 57^r, 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. 136^v (plate XVII^a). The missing text is supplied on added leaves by the hand shown on plate XVII^b (= fol. 144). The variants are in the hand of Budaeus. Plate XVIII contains fols. 32^v 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