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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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Material added by the transcriber is in {braces}. Manuscripts identified
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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
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
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