[Sidenote:  Oldest group of uncial manuscripts]

Our oldest group would naturally be composed of those uncial manuscripts which bear the closest resemblance to the above-mentioned manuscripts of the fourth and fifth centuries, and I should include in that group such manuscripts as these: 

A. Of Classical Authors.

1.  Rome, Vatic. lat. 5757.—­Cicero, De Re Publica, palimpsest.

Traube, l.c., No. 269-70; Zangemeister-Wattenbach, pl.  XVII; E. Chatelain, Paleographie des classiques latins, pl.  XXXIX, 2; Palaeographical Society, pl. 160; Steffens{2}, pl. 15.  For a complete facsimile edition of the manuscript see Codices e Vaticanis selecti phototypice expressi, Vol.  II, Milan 1907; Ehrle-Liebaert, Specimina codicum latinorum Vaticanorum (Bonn 1912), pl. 4.

2.  Rome, Vatic. lat. 5750 + Milan, Ambros.  E. 147 sup.—­Scholia Bobiensia in Ciceronem, palimpsest.

Traube, l.c., No. 265-68; Zangemeister-Wattenbach, pl.  XXXI; Palaeographical Society, pl. 112; complete facsimile edition in Codices e Vaticanis selecti, etc., Vol.  VII, Milan 1906; Ehrle-Liebaert, Specimina codicum latinorum Vaticanorum, pl. 5a.

3.  Vienna, 15.—­Livy, fifth decade (five books).

Traube, l.c., No. 359; Zangemeister-Wattenbach, pl.  XVIII; E. Chatelain, Paleographie des classiques latins, pl.  CXX; complete facsimile edition in Codices graeci et latini photographice depicti, Tom.  IX, Leyden 1907.

4.  Paris, lat. 5730.—­Livy, third decade.

Traube, l.c., No. 183; Zangemeister-Wattenbach, pl.  XIX; Paleographical Society, pls. 31 and 32; E. Chatelain, Paleographie des classiques latins, pl.  CXVI; Reproductions des manuscrits et miniatures de la Bibliotheque Nationale, ed.  H. Omont, Vol.  I, Paris 1907.

5.  Verona, XL (38).—­Livy, first decade, 6 palimpsest leaves.

    Traube, l.c., No. 349-50.  Th.  Mommsen, Analecta Liviana, Leipsic
    1873; E. Chatelain, Paleographie des classiques latins, pl.  CVI.

6.  Rome, Vatic. lat. 10696.—­Livy, fourth decade, Lateran fragments.

Traube, l.c., No. 277; M. Vattasso, “Frammenti d’un Livio del V. secolo recentemente scoperti, Codice Vaticano Latino 10696” in Studi e Testi, Vol.  XVIII, Rome 1906; Ehrle-Liebaert, Specimina codicum latinorum Vaticanorum, pl. 5b.

7.  Bamberg, Class. 35_a_.—­Livy, fourth decade, fragments.

Traube, l.c., No. 7; idem, “Palaeographische Forschungen IV, Bamberger Fragmente der vierten Dekade des Livius” in Abhandlungen der Koeniglich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, III Klasse, XXIV Band, I Abteilung, Munich 1904.

8.  Vienna, lat. 1_a_.—­Pliny, Historia Naturalis, fragments.

    Traube, l.c., No. 357; E. Chatelain, Paleographie des classiques
    latins, pl.  CXXXVII, 1.