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. 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 9v (slightly reduced), containing the end of Book II and the beginning of Book III. 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. 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. XIX. Aldine edition of Pliny’s _Letters_, Venice 1508. Our plate reproduces the end of Book II and the beginning of Book III. 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. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * {Transcriber’s Corrections: PART I: Footnote 29: Steffens, _Lateinische Paläographie²_ _text reads_ Palaographie _Oldest group of uncial manuscripts_ B.5 ...Über den Ältesten... _text reads_ uber den altesten _Oldest group of uncial manuscripts_ B.9 Les manuscrits latins du Ve au XIIIe siècle conservés... _text reads_ conserves Footnote 32: Recueil de Fac-similés _text reads_ Receuil PART II: Footnote 28: Briefe des Plinius _text reads_ Plinus } End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger, by Elias Avery Lowe and Edward Kennard Rand