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
2. Paris, lat. 17225.--Corbie Gospels (ff²).
Traube, l.c., No. 214; _Palaeographical Society_, pl. 87;
E. Chatelain, _Uncialis scriptura_, pl. II; Reusens, _Éléments
de paléographie_, pl. III, Louvain 1899.
3. Constance-Weingarten Biblical fragments.--Prophets, fragments
scattered in the libraries of Stuttgart, Darmstadt, Fulda, and St. Paul
in Carinthia.
Traube, l.c., No. 302; Zangemeister-Wattenbach, pl. XXI; complete
facsimile reproduction of the fragments in _Codices graeci et
latini photographice depicti_, Supplementum IX, Leyden 1912, with
introduction by P. Lehmann.
4. Berlin, lat. 4º. 298.--Computus Paschalis of ca. a. 447.
Traube, l.c., No. 13; see above, p. 16, no. 3.
5. Turin, G. VII. 15.--Bobbio Gospels (k).
Traube, l.c., No. 324; _Old Latin Biblical Texts_, vol. II, Oxford
1886; F. Carta, C. Cipolla, C. Frati, _Monumenta Palaeographica
sacra_, pl. V, 2; R. Beer, “Über den Ältesten Handschriftenbestand
des Klosters Bobbio” in _Anzeiger der Kais. Akad. der Wiss. in
Wien_, 1911, No. XI, pp. 91 sqq.; C. Cipolla, _Codici Bobbiesi_,
pls. XIV-XV; complete facsimile reproduction of the manuscript,
with preface by C. Cipolla: _Il codice Evangelico _k_ della
Biblioteca Universitaria Nazionale di Torino_, Turin 1913.
6. Turin, F. IV. 27 + Milan, D. 519. inf. + Rome, Vatic. lat. 10959.--
Cyprian, Epistolae, fragments.
Traube, l.c., No. 320; E. Chatelain, _Uncialis scriptura_, pl. IV,
2; C. Cipolla, _Codici Bobbiesi_, pl. XIII; Ehrle-Liebaert,
_Specimina codicum latinorum Vaticanorum_, pl. 5d.
7. Turin, G. V. 37.--Cyprian, de opere et eleemosynis.
Traube, l.c., No. 323; Carta, Cipolla e Frati, _Monumenta
palaeographica sacra_, pl. V, 1; Cipolla, _Codici Bobbiesi_,
pl. XII.
8. Oxford, Bodleian Auct. T. 2. 26.--Eusebius-Hieronymus, Chronicle,
post a. 442.
Traube, l.c., No. 164; see above, p. 16, no. 2.
9. Petrograd Q. v. I. 3 (Corbie).--Varia of St. Augustine.
Traube, l.c., No. 140; E. Chatelain, _Uncialis scriptura_, pl.
III; A. Staerk, _Les manuscrits latins du Ve au XIIIe siècle
conservés à la bibliothèque impériale de Saint Petersburg_ (St.
Petersburg 1910), Vol. II. pl. 2.
10. St. Gall, 1394.--Gospels (n).
Traube, l.c., No. 60; _Old Latin Biblical Texts_, Vol. II, Oxford
1886; _Palaeographical Society_, II. pl. 50; Steffens¹, pl. 15;
E. Chatelain, _Uncialis scriptura_, pl. I, 1; A. Chroust,
_Monumenta Palaeographica_, XVII, pl. 3.
[Sidenote: _Characteristics of the oldest uncial manuscripts_]
The main characteristics of the manuscripts included in the above list,
which is by no means complete, may briefly be described thus:
1. General effect of compactness. This is the result of _scriptura
continua_, which knows no separation of words and no punctuation.
See the facsimiles cited above.
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