Présentation de l'éditeur
The text of this selection of Pliny sletters is that of Keil (L eipsig, 1870). Keil has prefixed to this (his second edition) an admirable account of the materials extant for a critical edition of the works of the author, and an estimate of their comparative authority. He distinguishes three families of extant MSS. The first is represented by the Medicean and Vatican MSS. Of these the Vatican, though perhaps the more ancient, contains only the first four books. The Medicean, containing all the letters except those to and from Trajan, must therefore hold the first place in importance. The second family is best represented by the Florentine MS., and contains only one hundred letters. The third family is of a. much later date, and consists of a great number of MSS. of the fifteenth century, which are also all imperfect, as they omit the eighth book, and put either the fifth or the ninth in its place. Keil considers the Codex Dresdensis the most valuable of this class of MSS. The letters to and from Trajan (formerly called the tenth book), stand on a different footing. We have no MSL authority for their text, and deeni.
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