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PALEOGRAPHY. 



Loew, E. A., New York, N. Y. Associate in Paleography. (For previous 

 reports see Year Books Nos. 9-15.) 



With publications begun on the other side still suspended by the 

 war, the fall and winter months were spent on an investigation of the 

 Latin manuscripts in the collection of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. The 

 oldest manuscripts in this collection are of such venerable antiquity 

 that they would be considered rare treasures in any of the great 

 European libraries and are of distinct interest to the student of pale- 

 ography as instructive specimens of a number of well-defined types. 

 The collection contains, besides the oldest manuscript of the letters of 

 the Younger Pliny, mention of which was made in my last report, the 

 only known dated uncial manuscript of the seventh century, the St. 

 Augustine written in the j^ear 669 in the celebrated abbey of Luxeuil; 

 also manuscripts which exemplify the hand of the school of Tours, the 

 Merovingian hand practiced at Luxeuil, that in use at the abbey of 

 St. Gall, and fragments in the Beneventan and Anglo-Saxon hands. 



The results of this investigation are to appear in the form of a detailed 

 and amply illustrated catalogue, to be published, conditions permitting, 

 by the Clarendon Press. 



With regard to the Bobbio Missal, mentioned in my last report, 

 it may be found necessary to publish it without the adequate introduc- 

 tion which was purposed, inasmuch as this involved another examina- 

 tion of the manuscripts. 



The joint study by Professor Rand and Dr. Loew on the Morgan 

 Pliny, referred to above, will be sent to press shortly. The months of 

 April and May were spent in Ithaca, where a chapter on the dating 

 of uncial manuscripts was added to this study. 



During the year two other libraries have been visited and examined : 

 the New York Public Library and the library of Henry Walters, esq., 

 at Baltimore. The former is composed chiefly of hturgical manuscripts 

 of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, while the collection of Mr. 

 Walters contains manuscripts from the ninth century on. 



