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 YorkRand, Edward Kennard
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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
Rand, Edward Kennard
Manuscripts, Latin -- Facsimiles; Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 50-1515; Paleography, Latin; Pliny, the Younger -- Correspondence
Asked to enumerate the landmarks which may serve as helpful guides in
uncial writing prior to the year 800, we should hardly go far wrong if
we tabulate them in the following order:[29]
[Footnote 29: For the pertinent literature on the manuscripts in the
following list the student is referred to Traube’s _Vorlesungen und
Abhandlungen_, Vol. I, pp. 171-261, Munich 1909, and the index in
Vol. III, Munich 1920. The chief works of facsimiles referred to
below are: Zangemeister and Wattenbach, _Exempla codicum latinorum
litteris maiusculis scriptorum_, Heidelberg 1876 & 1879; E.
Chatelain, _Paléographie des classiques latins_, Paris 1884-1900,
and _Uncialis scriptura codicum latinorum novis exemplis illustrata_,
Paris 1901-2; and Steffens, _Lateinische Paläographie²_, Treves
1907. (Second edition in French appeared in 1910.)]
1. Codex Vercellensis of the Gospels (a). ca. a. 371
Traube, l.c., No. 327; Zangemeister-Wattenbach, pl. XX.
2. Bodleian Manuscript (Auct. T. 2. 26) of Jerome’s translation of the
Chronicle of Eusebius (older portion). post a. 442
Traube, l.c., No. 164; J.K. Fotheringham, _The Bodleian manuscript
of Jerome’s version of the Chronicle of Eusebius reproduced in
collotype_, Oxford 1905, pp. 25-6; Steffens², pl. 17; also
Schwartz in _Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift_, XXVI (1906),
c. 746.
3. Berlin Computus Paschalis (MS. lat. 4º. 298). ca. a. 447
Traube, l.c., No. 13; Th. Mommsen, “Zeitzer Ostertafel vom Jahre
447” in _Abhandl. der Berliner Akad. aus dem Jahre 1862_, Berlin
1863, pp. 539 sqq.; “Liber Paschalis Codicis Cicensis A.
CCCCXLVII” in _Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Auctores
Antiquissimi_, IX, 1, pp. 502 sqq.; Zangemeister-Wattenbach,
pl. XXIII.
4. Codex Fuldensis of the Gospels (F), Fulda MS. Bonifat. 1, read by
Bishop Victor of Capua. ante a. 546
Traube, l.c., No. 47; E. Ranke, _Codex Fuldensis, Novum
Testamentum Latine interprete Hieronymo ex manuscripto Victoris
Capuani_, Marburg and Leipsic 1868; Zangemeister-Wattenbach, pl.
XXXIV; Steffens², pl. 21a.
5. Codex Theodosianus (Turin, MS. A. II. 2). a. 438-ca. 550
Manuscripts containing the Theodosian Code can not be earlier than
A.D. 438, when this body of law was promulgated, nor much later than
the middle of sixth century, when the Justinian Code supplanted the
Theodosian and made it useless to copy it.
Traube, l.c., No. 311; idem, “Enarratio tabularum” in _Theodosiani
libri_ XVI edited by Th. Mommsen and P.M. Meyer, Berlin 1905;
Zangemeister-Wattenbach, pls. XXV-XXVIII; C. Cipolla, _Codici
Bobbiesi_, pls. VII, VIII. See also _Oxyrh. Papyri_ XV (1922),
No. 1813, pl. 1.
6. The Toulouse Manuscript (No. 364) and Paris MS. lat. 8901, containing
Canons, written at Albi. a. 600-666
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