[Footnote 1: Deletion of _i_ before _u_ is marked by a dot above the letter and a slanting stroke through it.]
[Footnote 2: _h_ and _i_ above the line are apparently by the first hand.]
[Footnote 3: _n_ (in brackets) is a later addition.]
[Footnote 4: The letters _uid_ are plainly retraced by a later hand. The same hand retouched _neges h_ in the same line.]
[Footnote 5: _i_ before _n_ added by a later corrector who erased the _i_ which the scribe wrote after _quod_, in the line above.]
[Footnote 6: Superfluous _ti_ cancelled by means of dots and oblique stroke.]
[Footnote 7: Added by a Caroline hand of the ninth century.]
NULLAM IN SUMMA COMPUTABAM SI MUNERE HOC TERTIO FUNGERE^{ R}[1] FACILI OREM MIHI EXCUSATIONEM FORE SI QUIS INCIDISSET QUEM NON DEBEREM ACCUSARE NAM CUM EST OMNIUM OFFI 5 CIORUM FINIS ALIQUIS TUM OPTIME LIBERTATI UENIA OBSEQUIO PRAEPARA TUR AUDISTI CONSILII MEI MOTUS SUPER EST ALTERUTRA EX PARTE IUDICIUM TUUM IN QUO MIHI AEQ_UE_ IUCU^{ I}NDA[2] ERIT SIM 10 PLICITAS DISSI^{ N}TIENTIS[3] QUAM COMPRO BANTIS AUCTORITAS UALE
PERGRATUM EST MIHI QUOD TAM DILIGE_N_ TER LIBROS AUONCULI MEI LECTITAS UT 15 HABERE OMNES UELIS QUAERASQ_UE_ QUI SINT OMNES { .D}{ .E}FUNGAR[4] INDICIS PARTIBUS ATQUE ETIAM QUO SINT ORDINE SCRIPTI NOTUM TIBI FACIAM EST ENIM HAEC QUOQ_UE_ STUDIOSIS NON INIUCUNDA COG 20 NITIO DE IACULATIONE EQUESTRI UNUS· HUNC CUM PRAEFECTUS ALAE MILITA RET· PARI[5] INGENIO CURAQ_UE_ COMPOSUIT· DE UITA POMPONI SECUNDI DUO A QUO SINGULARITER AMATUS HOC MEMORIAE 25 AMICI QUASI DEBITUM MUNUS EXSOL UIT·BELLORUM GERMANIAE UIGINTI QUIB_US_
[Footnote 1: _r_ added above the line by the scribe or by a contemporary hand.]
[Footnote 2: _i_ added above the second _u_ by the scribe or by a contemporary hand.]
[Footnote 3: The scribe wrote _dissitientis_. A contemporary hand changed the second _i_ to _e_ and wrote an _n_ above the _t_.]
[Footnote 4: _de_ is cancelled by means of dots above the _d_ and _e_ and oblique strokes drawn through them.]
[Footnote 5: The strokes over the _i_ at the end of this word and at the beginning of the next were added by a corrector who can not be much older than the thirteenth century.]
THE MORGAN FRAGMENT AND ALDUS'S ANCIENT CODEX PARISINUS.[1]
Aldus Manutius, in the preface to his edition of Pliny's _Letters_, printed at Venice in 1508, expresses his gratitude to Aloisio Mocenigo, Venetian ambassador in Paris, for bringing to Italy an exceptionally fine manuscript of the _Letters_; the book had been found not long before at or near Paris by the architect Fra Giocondo of Verona. The _editio princeps_, 1471, was based on a family of manuscripts that omitted Book VIII, called Book IX Book VIII, and did not contain Book X, the correspondence between Pliny and Trajan. Subsequent editions had only in part made good these deficiencies. More than a half of Book X, containing the letters numbered 41-121 in editions of our day, was published by Avantius in 1502 from a copy of the Paris manuscript made by Petrus Leander.[2] Aldus himself, two years before printing his edition, had received from Fra Giocondo a copy of the entire manuscript, with six other volumes, some of them printed editions which Giocondo had collated with manuscripts. Aldus, addressing Mocenigo, thus describes his acquisition: