[Sidenote: _Disposition_]

The pages in our manuscript are written in long lines,[4] in _scriptura
continua_, with hardly any punctuation.

[Footnote 4: Many of our oldest Latin manuscripts have two and even
three columns on a page, a practice evidently taken over from the
roll. But very ancient manuscripts are not wanting which are written
in long lines, _e.g._, the Codex Vindobonensis of Livy, the Codex
Bobiensis of the Gospels, or the manuscript of Pliny’s _Natural
History_ preserved at St. Paul in Carinthia.]

Each page begins with a large letter, even though that letter occur in
the body of a word (cf. foll. 48r, 51v, 52r).[5]

[Footnote 5: This is an ear-mark of great antiquity. It is found,
for example, in the Berlin and Vatican Schedae Vergilianae in square
capitals (Berlin lat. 2º 416 and Rome Vatic. lat. 3256 reproduced in
Zangemeister and Wattenbach’s _Exempla Codicum Latinorum_, etc., pl.
14, and in Steffens, _Lateinische Paläographie_², pl. 12b), in the
Vienna, Paris, and Lateran manuscripts of Livy, in the Codex
Corbeiensis of the Gospels, and here and there in the palimpsest
manuscript of Cicero’s _De Re Publica_ and in other manuscripts.]

Each epistle begins with a large letter. The line containing the address
which precedes each epistle also begins with a large letter. In both
cases the large letter projects into the left margin.

The running title at the top of each page is in small rustic
capitals.[6] On the verso of each folio stands the word EPISTVLARVM;