Volume / Number: 11 / 1660

• New York, N. Y. USA Pierpont Morgan Library M. 462

Written presumably in Italy, to judge by its palaeography. Came to France, possibly by the tenth century, certainly by the end of the fourteenth, as the French entry testifies. Was doubtless the Parisinus of Aldus, the archetype of the French family.

Script is uncial of great regularity of not quite the oldest type: the hasta of E often joins the curve towards the middle; F is narrow; the tail of G is very small and fine; the first stroke of M is curved; R, S, and U are rather broad. A note in Caroline minuscule saec. X on fol. 6; an entry in French concerning the keeper of the seal of the provosté of Meaux, Jean de Sauvénières, in French notarial script saec. XIV ex. is seen in the upper margin of fol. 4.

☛E. A. Lowe and E. K. Rand, A sixth-century fragment of the letters of Pliny the Younger (Washington 1922) online here.