[Our correspondent seems to doubt that the communications to which
he refers were really printed from contemporary MSS. The Editor is
able to vouch for that having been certainly the fact. They are
not printed from transcripts from Echard, but from real MSS. of
the time of Charles II., or thereabouts; while the fact of these
early transcripts having been printed surely does not furnish any
argument against the valuable suggestion of S. H. H. as to the
preservation of similar documents for the use of the public, and
in the manner pointed out in his communication.--ED.]
_Anonymous Ravennas_ (Vol. i., pp. 124. 220. 368.; Vol. iii., p.
462.).--Your correspondents have neglected to observe that this author's
Chorography of Britain was published by Gale, "ad calcem Antonini Iter
Britanniarum," viz., _Britanniæ Chorographia cum Autographo Regis Galliæ
Ms'o. et Codice Vaticano collata; Adjiciuntur conjecturæ plurimæ cum
nominibus locorum Anglicis, quotquot iis assignari potuerint_: Londini,
1709, 4to.
A copy of the edition of _Anonymi Ravennatis Geographiæ Libri Quinque_
(of the last of which the Chorography of Britain forms a part) noticed
by J. I. (Vol. i., p. 220.) is now before me; as also a later edition,
published by the editor's son, Abram Gronovius: Lugduni Batavorum, 1722,
8vo.
Horsley's _Britannia Romana_, book iii. chap. iv., contains "1. Some
account of this author and his work; 2. The Latin text of this
writer[2]; 3. Remarks upon many of the places mentioned by him, and more
particularly of such as seem to be the same with the stations per lineam
valli in the Notitia." His remarks are diametrically opposite to the
conjectures of Camden and Gale.
[Footnote 2: The Chorography from Gale's edition.]