1898.] SMYTH — PERICLES AND APOLLONIUS. 219" 



edition in Berliner Philolog. JPochenschrift, 1888, p. 561, and de- 

 cided that the new text was of such importance as to render it 

 necessary that his own publication should be recast. Accordingly 

 he issued Hist or ia Apollonii Regis Tyri, iteritin recensuit, Alexan- 

 der Riese, Lipsice, in adibus B. G. Teubneri, mdccclxxxxiiiy 

 with an entirely new Preface, in which he repeats his acknowledg- 

 ments to Tycho Mommsen, and confesses his obligation to Maxi- 

 milian Bonnet, who carefully collated anew the Paris Codex after 

 the appearance of Ring's volume. This final work of Riese was 

 completed at Frankfurt-am-Main, December, 1892. 



So far as the MSS. have been examined, they are found to differ 

 widely in language and construction, but to cling rather persistently 

 to the type of the story. An account of such of the MSS. as have 

 been collated may be found in Georg Penon, Bijdragen tot de 

 Geschiedenisder Nederlandsche Letterkunde, 1880 ; W. Meyer, " Ab- 

 handlung iiber den lateinischen Text der Geschichte des Apollonius 

 von Tyrus " (in Silzungsberichte der philosophisch und hist. CI. d. 

 kon.-bay. Akad. d. Wissen. zti MiUichen, 1872, Heft I); A. Ri ese, 

 prcefatio to Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri ; Carl Schroeder, Griseldis, 

 S. xii, xiii ; Mauricii Hauptii, Opuscula, Lipsiae, iii, 4, 5 and 6 ; 

 Yv^tx, Hofische Epik, iii, 376; Zupitza, Roman. For., iii, 269; 

 Hermann Hagen, Der Ro??ian voj?t K'onig Apollonius von Tyrus in 

 seinen verschiedenen Bearbeitungen^ Berlin, 1878, and S. Singer, 

 Apollonius von Tyrus, Halle, 1895. 



The MSS. in the British Museum have been carefully studied 

 and catalogued by L. H. D. Ward, Catalogue of Romances, i, 161- 

 171. He enumerates Sloane 16 19 (early thirteenth century); 

 Arundel 292, (late thirteenth century); Arundel 123 (early four- 

 teenth century) ; Cotton, Vespasian A, xiii (fifteenth century) ; 

 Sloane 2233 (seventeenth century) ; Royal 20, C. ii (fifteenth cen- 

 tury) ; Additional 4857 (A.D. 1669-1670) ; Add. 4864 (1770), 

 Cotton, Titus, D. iii (early fourteenth century); Royal 14, C. xi 

 (early fourteenth century). 



The editio princeps is Laurentianus Ixvi, of the ninth or tenth 

 century, in Lombardy characters. It is fairly free from grave 

 faults and misconstructions, and would have been followed by 

 Mommsen had it been complete, but certain parts are missing (see 

 Riese, 1893, p. iv). The Paris Codex which M. Ring edited is 

 next in value to the Laurentian, which it resembles, though it is 

 much more recent, belonging to the fourteenth century. These 



