Vat.lat.5148 is a late manuscript that betrays its youth by emulating a printed book. The phenomenon of early printing emulating manuscripts, in both hand and style, is well known, but once print had become dominant, the hand-written manuscript adapted by emulating the new upstart. The large initial M whose ink has burned through f.1r (see image to the right), starting an unknown text, could almost pass for printing.

Also added this week is a triplet of Terrance, a copy of The Woman of Andros Ross.446, The Eunuch Ross.447, (incomplete at the beginning) and an anonymous Vita Terentii Ross.445