on the recto of the following folio stands the number of the book,
_e.g._, LIB. II, LIB. III.

[Footnote 6: In many of our oldest manuscripts uncials are employed.
The Pliny palimpsest of St. Paul in Carinthia agrees with our
manuscript in using rustic capitals. For facsimiles see J. Sillig,
_C. Plini Secundi Naturalis Historiae_, Libri XXXVI, Vol. VI, Gotha
1855, and Chatelain, _Paléographie des Classiques Latins_, pl.
CXXXVI.]

To judge by our fragment, each book was preceded by an index of
addresses and initial lines written in alternating lines of black and
red uncials. Alternating lines of black and red rustic capitals of a
large size were used in the colophon.[7]

[Footnote 7: In this respect, too, the Pliny palimpsest of St.
Paul in Carinthia agrees with our fragment. Most of the oldest
manuscripts, however, have the colophon in the same type of writing
as the text.]


[Sidenote: _Ornamentation_]

As in all our oldest Latin manuscripts, the ornamentation is of
the simplest kind. Such as it is, it is mostly found at the end and
beginning of books. In our case, the colophon is enclosed between two
scrolls of vine-tendrils terminating in an ivy-leaf at both ends. The
lettering in the colophon and in the running title is set off by means
of ticking above and below the line.