A total of seventy manuscripts were digitized this week, quite a lot considering that they were closed for Mardi Gras and Ash Wedneday. Recent trends continue, with a bulk of the manuscripts from Reg.lat, fewer Pal.lat than in prior weeks, some Vat.lat.9xxx, and then a random assortment of other sections, even one from the rarely seen Vat.turc.

To the right is f.16v from Reg.lat.1719, a glossed copy of mostly Virgil and Ausonius, with a few other contemporary Latin writers thrown in. This page has the start of Virgil's Culex (Gnat) poem, considered to be a "youthful work". The large capitol L begins the text "Lusimus octavi gracili modulante thalia, Atque ut araneoli tenuem formavimus ursu[m]" (We have trifled, Octavius, while a slender Muse marked the measure, and lo! like tiny spiders, have fashioned our thin-spun task. in the Loeb translation).

The bottom is a line of Greco-Coptic liturgy from f.2v of Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIV.fasc.106, part of a large collection of separately catalogued binding fragments in the Borg.copt collection.