12. The Milan Manuscript (Ambros. B. 159 sup.) of Gregory’s Moralia, written at Bobbio in the abbacy of Anastasius. ca. a. 750 Traube, l.c., No. 102; _Palaeographical Society_, pl. 121; E.H. Zimmermann, _Vorkarolingische Miniaturen_ (Berlin 1916), pl. 14-16, Text, pp. 10, 41, 152; A. Reifferscheid, _Bibliotheca patrum latinorum italica_, II, 38 sq. 13. The Bodleian Acts of the Apostles (MS. Selden supra 30) written in the Isle of Thanet. ante a. 752 Traube, l.c., No. 165; Smith’s _Dictionary of the Bible_, IV (New York 1876) 3458 b; S. Berger, _Histoire de la Vulgate_ (Paris 1893), p. 44; Wordsworth and White, _Novum Testamentum_, II (1905), p. vii. 14. The Autun Manuscript (No. 3) of the Gospels, written at Vosevium. a. 754 Traube, l.c., No. 3; Zangemeister-Wattenbach, pl. LXI; Steffens², pl. 37. 15. Codex Beneventanus of the Gospels (London Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 5463) written at Benevento. a. 739-760 Traube, l.c., No. 88; _Palaeographical Society_, pl. 236; _Catalogue of the Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum_, II, pl. 7. 16. The Lucca Manuscript (No. 490) of the Liber Pontificalis. post a. 787 Traube, l.c., No. 92; J.D. Mansi, “De insigni codice Caroli Magni aetate scripto” in _Raccolta di opuscoli scientifici e filologici_, T. XLV (Venice 1751), ed. A. Calogiera, pp. 78-80; Th. Mommsen, _Gesta pontificum romanorum_, I (1899) in _Monumenta Germaniae Historica_; Steffens², pl. 48. Guided by the above manuscripts, we may proceed to determine the place which the Morgan Pliny occupies in the series of uncial manuscripts. The student of manuscripts recognizes at a glance that the Morgan fragment is, as has been said, distinctly older than the Codex Fuldensis of about the year 546. But how much older? Is it to be compared in antiquity with such venerable monuments as the palimpsest of Cicero’s _De Re Publica_, with products like the Berlin _Computus Paschalis_ or the Bodleian _Chronicle_ of Eusebius? If we examine carefully the characteristics of our oldest group of fourth- and fifth-century manuscripts and compare them with those of the Morgan manuscript we shall see that the latter, though sharing some of the features found in manuscripts of the oldest group, lacks others and in turn shows features peculiar to manuscripts of a later group. [Sidenote: _Oldest group of uncial manuscripts_] Our oldest group would naturally be composed of those uncial manuscripts which bear the closest resemblance to the above-mentioned manuscripts of the fourth and fifth centuries, and I should include in that group such manuscripts as these: A. Of Classical Authors. 1. Rome, Vatic. lat. 5757.--Cicero, De Re Publica, palimpsest.