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two MSS. Riese now assigns to the first class, and by their aid he 

 remodeled his earlier version. 



In the second class he places Oxo7iiensis collegii Magdalencei 50, 

 which contains the entire story (pp. 80-108) in a handwriting of the 

 eleventh century. Vaticanus 1869, was examined by W. Meyer and 

 pronounced similar to Oxon. Magdal. {Siizufigs. d. M'un. Akad.j 

 1872, p. 8). Vossianus 113, of the ninth or tenth century (pp. 

 1-78), agrees with the above. 



The Tegej-nsee MS., now Munich 19 148, although mutilated (it 

 consists of only nine and one-half leaves), is of much value, and its 

 readings were admitted into Riese's first edition.^ It coincides 

 more often with the Oxon. than with the Laurentian or Parisian 

 codex. I have examined the MS. and agree with Riese that Meyer 

 has exaggerated the importance of its unique features (cf. Riese, 

 vii). Even when Riese has adopted the Tegernsee readings with- 

 out comment he does not wish his silence to be interpreted as evi- 

 dence of the genuineness of the passages (''cave autem ne ex si- 

 lentio meo lectiones eorum pro certb constituas "). 



The Vindobonensis (Vienna;, twelfth century, Meyer says agrees 

 with Tegernsee. • 



Riese's third class of MSS. contains a great number of versions, 

 more boldly and more recently tampered with. To this class he 

 relegates Sloa?tianus 1619 f Bodleianus 247 (Laud. H. 39) (twelfth 

 or thirteenth century) ; Monacensis 215 (anno 1462)/ and Bernen- 

 sis 208 (saec xiii).^ 



As the MSS. l^ve come to be better known, a change of opinion 

 has taken place as to their relative value. Teufi'el believed the 

 third class which I have just cited to contain the best versions (see 



^ Cf. L. Traube, Neiies Archiv. d. Gesellschaft fur dltere detitsche Geschichts- 

 kiinde, 10, 1884, p. 382, 



Riese drew so liberally from the different MSS. in preparing his edition 

 that Rohde described his method as <'eine wunderliche eklektische Vermischung 

 der Texte " (^Der griechische Roman, 418). Riese's first edition is reviewed in 

 Gdltingiscke gelekrte Anzeigen, 2, 1 839- 1840; Liter arise hes Centralblatt^'^Q. 

 50, 1872, p. 1370; Philologisehet Anzeiger, iii, 1871, 536-539; Jahrbiieher 

 fut Philologie iind Pddagogik, 187 1, Vol. 103, p. 854; Philologus, xxxi, 562. 



2 Riese believes Sloan 1619 to belong to the eleventh century ; Ward dates it in 

 the thirteenth century ; it is impossible that it should be of the eleventh century. 



^ This MS. I have collated ; it is a bold paraphrase, without linguistic or 

 literary value. 



*The Berne MS. was collated by H, Hagen. Cf. Philol, Anz., ed. Leutsch, 

 1871. 



