lege of
visiting the Pierpont Morgan Library and making full use of its
facilities. For permission to publish the manuscript they are indebted
to the generous interest of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. They also desire to
make cordial acknowledgment of the unfailing courtesy and helpfulness of
the Librarian, Miss Belle da Costa Greene, and her assistant, Miss Ada
Thurston. Lastly, the writers wish to thank the Carnegie Institution of
Washington for accepting their joint study for publication and for their
liberality in permitting them to give all the facsimiles necessary to
illustrate the discussion.

E. K. RAND.
E. A. LOWE.

CONTENTS.

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

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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.