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An interesting addition to the Library —Through the liberality 
of the Bentham Trustees the library has been enriched by a co 
picturis Maile tag nune menceboiaasts Med. Gr. L ae ere ypice 
editus. The s vol. x. of the Codices Graece et Latini 
photographice depict edited by Dr. de Vries, Librarian at the 
University of Leyden. Besides the 491 folios pe songs from 
the MS. there a prefatory chapters contributed by Dr. von 
Premerstein, Prof. K. Wessely and others, and the whole is bound 
in two parts in heavy polished oak boards. 
The original manuscript was executed at Constantinople about 
the year 512 A.D., for the Princess Anicia Juliana, daughter of the 
Emperor Flavius "Anicius. It is therefore som metimes referred to 
as the Constantinopolitan MS. to distinguish it from another 
known as the Neapolitan, some - preserved at Naples, and is 
believed to “a even more The MS. was brought to 
Vienna by Busbequius about fie. eh 1560. At the instigation of 
the Empress Maria Theresa and under the supervision of Jacquin 
copper-plates were prepared from the illustrations in the MS. in 
1763, but, according to Daubeny, only two impressions from these 
a. struck off. One, containing only 140 engravings, came into 
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Society of London. The other, which contained 409 engravings, 
was presented by Jacquin to Sibthorp, and is pow at Oxford. 
The size of the folios in the Vienna — judging from the 
reproductions, is about 13} inches high by 115 inches broad. 
nee are ey much cosa ereers and sometimes reduced to 
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unequal in point of merit. Some, Sonsini the time of their 
execution, ~ excellent, while others are very crude anid remind 
one of t the rough, partly imaginary figures in some of the late 
fifteenth century herbals. 
ao agai about the time of the younger Pliny, who 
perished i e eruption of Vesuvius, August 25,79 A.D. His 
writings nui first published, in a Latin translation, at Cologne in 
1478, and for the first time in Greek at the famous Aldi ess 
editions founded on the writings of Dioscorides a red, some 
Mt bes fay es sihalvatol. especially the Valgrisian "oditlans of 
attio 
aes known by the names which Dioscorides actually cited. It 
not be doubted that the identification of later commentators 
ent very far-a-field. 
