Pliny, Letters fragment
Ms. epistolae; written in Italy at the end of the 5th century.
The six leaves comprise folios 48-53 of a larger manuscript of this text, the Codex Parisinus, which Aldus Manutius used for his 1508 edition of Pliny's Letters. In the preface to this edition Aldus thanks the Venetian ambassador in Paris, Aloisio Mocenigo, for having provided him with this manuscript (see Lowe & Rand, A sixth-century fragment..., p. 37).
A late 14th-centuryinscription on the upper margin of folio 51 (A tous ceulz qui ces presentes lettres verront et orront / Jehan de Sannemeres garde du scel de la provoste de / Meaulx & Francois Beloy clerc Jure de par le Roy / nostre sire a ce faire Salut sachient tuit que par. ) refers to Jehan de Sannemeres, keeper of the seal of the provosté of Meaux, mentioned in two documents in the Royal Belgian Archives at Brussels (see Rand, 1926, p. 343) dated 19 September and 4 November 1381.