1. Continuous Latin and English translation of Epp. 6.16 & 6.20, with collation markers

A side-by-side PDF with the reconstructed Latin text, a (more literal than elegant, to assist students) translation, and superscript collation markers with the words and phrases that vary most in the manuscript tradition, collated amongst all available manuscripts and printed editions. They represent 33.9% of all words in 6.16 and 29% of all words in 6.20 (the remaining words do not significantly vary).

2. Ep. 6.16 Source Inventory and Collation

This Microsoft Excel spreadsheet contains the full collation of 243 readings (both literal and normalized) in Ep. 6.16 for all known manuscripts and printed editions. I will add sources to this spreadsheet as I find them, and welcome corrections and additions.

3. Ep. 6.20 Source Inventory and Collation

This Microsoft Excel spreadsheet contains the full collation of 184 readings (both literal and normalized) in Ep. 6.20 for all known and available manuscripts and printed editions. I will add sources to this spreadsheet as I find them (later printed editions still need collation); I welcome corrections and additions.

4. Epp. 6.16 & 20 Collation “Fingerprints”

This Microsoft Excel spreadsheet compares the most diagnostic 286 readings from both Epp. 6.16 and 6.20, by ‘family’ and ‘sub-family,’ and includes reconstructed readings for Pliny’s original text, the three major families (α, β, γ), principal sub-families, plus a special section for θ readings, and reconstructions for several key, but now lost, manuscripts.

5. Select Collation of Ep. 1.8, 12, 23-24

This PDF contains the collation of 141 readings in Epp. 1.8, 12, 23-24 for 32 key manuscripts and printed editions. I welcome corrections and additions.

6. Select Collation of Ep. 8.1-8.8.3 and 8.18.11-8.24

This PDF contains the continuing collation of readings in Epp. 8.1-8.8.3 and 8.18.11-8.24 for key manuscripts and printed editions associated with the theta family of texts. I will add readings as I have time, and welcome corrections and additions.

7. Collation Encoding Key

A list and explanation of how manuscript conventions or abbreviations were encoded for the collation spreadsheets in items 2-6 above.

8. Pliny, Epistulae, high-resolution stemma (family tree), Figs. 2.2a-e

This elongated, continuous PDF is a high resolution, full-color version of Figs. 2.2a-e in Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius. It attempts to reconstruct the descent of Pliny’s text through its medieval copies and print editions to the present day, with special attention to Book 6.

9. Reconstructed Eruption Sequence, high-resolution version of Figs. 3.4a-c

This elongated, continuous PDF is a high resolution, halftone version of Figs. 3.4a-c in Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius. It puts different scholars’ reconstructed eruption sequences and their numbering systems side-by-side.

10. Geographic Informations System (GIS) of the Bay of Naples in AD 79

An ESRI Map Package (folder) of ArcGIS files that reconstructs the pre-eruption topography and shoreline of the Bay of Naples, the shape of Somma-Vesuvius, settlements, villa sites, rivers, road and aqueduct networks, phases of eruption fallout, etc. Please consult the metadata (“Map Document Properties”) for proper citation of all the sources that comprise this package.

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