310 CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON. 



The rapidity with which these studies succeeded one another has 

 prevented pubhcation ; but prehminary reports on Etruscan, Lydian, 

 Lycian, Hittite, Minoan, and Old Doric are nearly ready for press. 



Loew, E. A. , Oxford, England. Grant No. 856, allotted December 13,1912. 

 Continuation and completion of researches and publication of the 

 "Scriptura Beneventana." (For previous reports see Year Books 

 Nos. 9-11.) $1,800 



With a view to publishing — if the results warranted — a study of 

 the early minuscule writing of the school of Wiirzburg, I investigated 

 during the first quarter of 1913 the Latin mss. from Wiirzburg 

 which lie in the Bodleian. The researches are to be continued in 

 Wiii'zburg itself, which still possesses many of its ancient mss. As 

 the first fruit of these studies, I have prepared a paper on ''The 

 Oldest Catalogue of Wiirzburg mss." This eighth century cata- 

 logue has given me the conviction that the unique Graeco-Latin mss. 

 of the Acts of the Apostles, which scholars agree is the very volume 

 used by the Venerable Bede for his commentary on the Acts, had 

 formed part of the ancient Wiirzburg library. As there was a sug- 

 gestion that I be asked to write the preface to a facsimile edition of 

 this MS., I began a minute study of it. Previously I had made a 

 study of another very important Graeco-Latin biblical MS., namely, the 

 Codex Bezse of Cambridge. I had the honor to submit the result 

 of my investigations in a lecture at the University of Oxford, and a 

 r^sum^ of them has been published in the Journal of Theological 

 Studies (xiv, 385-389). The subject deserves full treatment, and if 

 accompanied by facsimiles will, I believe, be a contribution to the 

 history of provincial Latin palaeography. 



Much of my time and attention has been devoted to seeing the 

 "Beneventan Script" through the press. Owing to the unusual 

 character of the text and other unforeseen difficulties, the printing 

 has taken longer than was anticipated. So far only half of the book 

 has been set up, but it is fully expected that this book will be issued 

 before the year is over. 



Most of my work has been done in the Bodleian at Oxford, where 

 the facilities for such research are quite extraordinary, and where 

 I have en j oyed great courtesy and helpfulness . I wish here to express 

 my sense of obhgation to Bodley's librarian and his assistants. My 

 work has also taken me to Cambridge (University Library), London 

 (British Museum), and Paris (Bibliotheque Nationale). In Febru- 

 ary three lectures were given at Oxford: (1) The dating and placing 

 of Latin mss.; (2) Bihngual mss.; (3) The Codex Bezae. In April 

 a paper was read before the International Historical Congress held in 

 London. The contributions to periodicals are listed in the Bibliog- 

 raphy (p. 52.) 



