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PALEOGRAPHY. 



Lowe, E. A., Oxford, England. Associate in palaeography. (For previous 

 reports see Year Books 9-16, 19-20.) 



With a view to continuing the researches in uncial manuscripts, of which 

 mention was made in my previous report, it was planned to visit the libraries 

 of Germany and Austria, which have important representatives of uncial 

 writing. After completing investigation of the manuscripts of Vienna and 

 the manuscripts of St. Paul in Carinthia, which, thanks to the courtesy of the 

 Abbot, were sent from the monaster}^ to Vienna, further work was abandoned 

 owing to my illness. However, considerable progress has been made. 



Another unknown fragment of Virgil with the Greek translation was found 

 in the Rainer collection of papyri in Vienna, which, with the similar fragment 

 discovered in the Ambrosiana of Milan, forms the subject of a short article in 

 the next number of the Classical Review. The fragments are insignificant 

 in themselves, but they bear witness to the popularity of Virgil in Egyptian 

 education of the fifth and sixth centuries. One of the chief problems con- 

 nected with manuscripts is the discovery of criteria for detecting the precise 

 region or center where a manuscript was written. An article on The African 

 Home of the Codex Palatinus of the Gospels which has just appeared in the 

 Journal of Theological Studies, is an attempt to throw some light on this side 

 of palseograplry. In March a paper was read before the Oxford Philological 

 Society on Omission Signs in Latin Manuscripts. As these signs serve at 

 times as clues to the date and origin of a manuscript, their importance is 

 clear. The paper will be printed in an early issue of the Classical Quarterly. 

 Two works of palseographical interest were reviewed for the English His- 

 torical Review. 



In the course of work upon uncial manuscripts, the type known as half- 

 uncial was continually borne in mind, and sufficient data have been collected 

 to make it possible to publish the first comprehensive list of half-uncial 

 manuscripts. Under the writer's guidance, Mr. W. J. Anderson, of Christ 

 Church, Oxford, has been making a catalogue of published facsimiles of Latin 

 manuscripts. Although this catalogue is intended primarily to serve the 

 immediate purposes of the new collection of palseographical negatives, made 

 possible by the generosity of the trustees of the Carnegie Institution, it is so 

 valuable and convenient an aid to scholars dealing with original sources 

 that its publication seems highly advisable. 



Progress has been made with the collection of palseographical negatives. 

 Over 250 negatives have been acquired during the year. The practical 

 question of housing these negatives and of making them accessible to scholars 

 has been under consideration. The value of this collection is shown by the 

 fact that the Bodleian Library of Oxford is ready to become its custodian for 

 the Carnegie Institution. The Carnegie Institution could hardly do better 

 than to intrust the collection to the Curators of the Bodleian, with the under- 

 standing that the negatives are the property of the Institution and may be 

 removed to other quarters if that should seem desirable. 



