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it was collated by S. Singer and its readings quoted in \\\s Apollonius 

 ■^on Tyrus (1895). The next edition was made by Marcus Velser 

 in 1595 from an Augsburg MS. which is now lost. It is entitled 

 *^ Narratio eorum quae contigerunt Apollonio Tyrio, ex membranis 

 vetustis. Augustae Vindelicorum ad insigne pinus, anno 1595." 

 This edition consisted of twenty-three quarto leaves. It was re- 

 printed in Velseri Opera, 1682 (p. 677). 



In 1856 appeared Erotici Scriptores, ex nova recensione, G. A. 

 Hirschig, Parisiis, ed. Didot, in which between pp. 611 and 628 is 

 found " Eroticam de Apollonio Tyrio Fabulam ex codice Parasino 

 emendatius edidit et praefatiuncula notulisque instruxit. J. Lepaume 

 Lingonensis." The edition is a poor one. The prcBfatiuncula 

 occupies pp. 601-608, and is dated August, 1855. 



An edition in Latin verse was edited by Diimmler in 1877 — 

 *^ Gesta Apollonii Regis Tyri metrica, ex codice Gandensi," edidit 

 E. Dummler, pp. 20, Berolini, 1877, 4°. It appeared again in 

 '* Monumenta Germanise Historica, edidit Societas Aperiendis 

 Fontibus Rerum Germanicarum medii sevi," Berolini, 1884; it is 

 found in the second volume — "■ Pcetae Latini sevi Carolini, Recensuit 

 Ernestus Dummler." It occupies pp. 483-506, is in leonine verse, 

 with Virgilian reminiscences, and is printed from an eleventh-century 

 MS. preserved in Ghent : '^ Codex mcmbranaceus, sseculi XI, biblio- 

 thecse universitatis Gandensis, Nr. 169, signatus constat 229 foliis. 

 Scriptum autem eum esse in monasterio hujus civitatis sancti Petri 

 testatur paginae 454 subscriptio ' liber sancti Petri Gandensis 

 ecclesie .... servanto benedictio .... toUente ma'edictio 

 ..... qui folium ex eo tulerit uel certauerit Anathema sit.* " 

 Diimmler in hi?, prcBfatio says, *' Poeta noster fabulam suam omnem 

 €x historia Apollonii regis Tyrii pedestri oratione conscripta mutua- 

 tus dilatando copiosiorem ornatioremque reddidit. Utrum ad 

 ■iinem eam perduxerit necne ignoramus, quia fortuito duo tantum 

 <:odicis folia cseteris deletis ad nostram usque aetatem pervenerunt." 



Tycho Mommsen, who has spent many years of his long and 

 learned life in the study of the Apollonius story, gave his collations 

 of MSS. to Alexander Riese in 1871, who published in the Teub- 

 ner Classics in that year a volume, Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri. 

 A few years later Michael Ring edited the previously unknown 

 Paris Codex, and published Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri e codice 

 Farasino 4955, edidit et commentario critic instruxit, Michael 

 Ring, pp. 20, Posonii et Lipsice, iSSy. Riese reviewed Ring's 



