author
E. A. (Elias Avery) Lowe
1879–1969
A leading scholar of medieval handwriting, this pioneering palaeographer helped transform the study of early Latin manuscripts. His work connected American and British scholarship and remains important to readers interested in how ancient texts survive.
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A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York
by E. A. (Elias Avery) Lowe, Edward Kennard Rand
About the author
Born in 1879 in the Russian Empire and brought to New York as a boy, E. A. Lowe built an international career from a deep fascination with old manuscripts. He studied at City College of New York and Cornell, and later became known as one of the most important specialists in Latin palaeography.
Lowe taught at Oxford and later worked at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. He is especially remembered for his research on early medieval scripts and for Codices Latini Antiquiores, a major descriptive catalogue of Latin manuscripts written before the ninth century.
He died in 1969, but his scholarship still matters because it gave later historians and readers a clearer map of the manuscript world. For anyone curious about how classical and medieval books were copied, preserved, and identified, his work opened the door.