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Title: 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

Author: Elias Avery Lowe and Edward Kennard Rand

Release Date: September 17, 2005 [EBook #16706]

Language: English

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{Transcriber's Note:
Except for footnote references, all brackets are in the original text.
Material added by the transcriber is in {braces}. Manuscripts identified
by Greek letter are shown in the form {Pi}.
Typographical errors are listed at the end of the text.}

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

by

E. A. LOWE

Associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
Sandars Reader at Cambridge University (1914)
Lecturer in Palaeography at Oxford University

and

E. K. RAND

Professor of Latin in Harvard University

[Illustration:
CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON
1902]

Published by the
CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON
Washington, 1922

CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON

Publication No. 304

The University Press
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
U. S. A.

PREFATORY NOTE.

The Pierpont Morgan Library, itself a work of art, contains masterpieces
of painting and sculpture, rare books, and illuminated manuscripts.
Scholars generally are perhaps not aware that it also possesses the
oldest Latin