Part I. THE PALAEOGRAPHY OF THE MORGAN FRAGMENT.  By E. A. Lowe.

Description of the Fragment
  Contents, size, vellum, binding
  Ruling
  Relation of the six leaves to the rest of the manuscript
  Original size of the manuscript
  Disposition
  Ornamentation
  Corrections
  Syllabification
  Orthography
  Abbreviations
  Authenticity of the six leaves
  Archetype

The Date and Later History of the Manuscript
  On the dating of uncial manuscripts
  Dated uncial manuscripts
  Oldest group of uncial manuscripts
  Characteristics of the oldest uncial manuscripts
  Date of the Morgan manuscript
  Later history of the Morgan manuscript
  Conclusion

Transcription

Part ii.  The text of the Morgan fragment.  By E. K. Rand.

The Morgan Fragment and Aldus’s Ancient Codex Parisinus
  The Codex Parisinus
  The Bodleian volume
  The Morgan fragment possibly a part of the lost Parisinus
  The script
  Provenience and contents
  The text closely related to that of Aldus
  Editorial methods of Aldus

Relation of the Morgan Fragment to the Other Manuscripts of the Letters
  Classes of the manuscripts
  The early editions
  _{Pi}_ a member of Class I
  _{Pi}_ the direct ancestor of BF with probably a copy intervening
  The probable stemma
  Further consideration of the external history of P, _{Pi}_, and B
  Evidence from the portions of BF outside the text of _{Pi}_

Editorial Methods of Aldus
  Aldus’s methods; his basic text
  The variants of Budaeus in the Bodleian volume
  Aldus and Budaeus compared
  The latest criticism of Aldus
  Aldus’s methods in the newly discovered parts of Books viii, IX, and X
  The Morgan fragment the best criterion of Aldus
  Conclusion

Description of Plates

PART I.

The palaeography of the Morgan
fragment

by

E. A. Lowe

The palaeography of the Morgan fragment.

Description of the fragment.

[Sidenote:  Contents size vellum binding]

The Morgan fragment of Pliny the Younger contains the end of Book ii and the beginning of Book iii of the Letters (ii, xx. 13-III, v. 4).  The fragment consists of six vellum leaves, or twelve pages, which apparently formed part of a gathering or quire of the original volume.

The leaves measure 11-3/8 by 7 inches (286 x 180 millimeters); the written space measures 7-1/4 by 4-3/8 inches (175 x 114 millimeters); outer margin, 1-7/8 inches (50 millimeters); inner, 3/4 inch (18 millimeters); upper margin, 1-3/4 inches (45 millimeters); lower, 2-1/4 inches (60 millimeters).