with extensive commentary and dissertation, in about
ten volumes folio, between the years 1795 and 1855.
A new series of these "Volumina Herculanensia," as
they are entitled, was begun in 1861, and is still
slowly going on. This collection is a lithographic re-
production from the copies taken on unrolling the
manuscripts, and is free from note or comment. In
England, the Bodleian Library rejoices in the posses-
sion of excellent copies of a large number of the
manuscripts, in the shape of very accurate pencil
tracings on paper, taken on the spot, and presented
to the University of Oxford by George IV. Out of
these a selection, dictated at least to some extent by
the legibility of the manuscripts, and apparently in no
connection with the interest of the contents, was litho-
graphed, and published in the year 1824. ¹

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