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of this part of the 15th century manuscript at Florence has always 
been recognized as of such surpassing worth. 
This completes the story of a manuscript which played a 
most important part in the purifying of Cicero’s text,—acting, as it 
were, as a sort of secret agent through the centuries, which has only 
now been recognized and brought to light. As already stated the 
manuscript passed from the Low Countries to Lord Leicester’s Library 
at Holkham in Norfolk. It may be of interest to add that when I 
published at Oxford the edition of the text of the Verrine Orations, in 
which the results of this identification were embodied, I sent a copy 
to the representative in Montreal of that Church which has always 
maintained the use of Latin asa living language. From Mer. Bruchesi 
I had the pleasure of receiving an acknowledgement couched in the 
Latin language, and expressed with so much classical grace that I may 
appropriately end this paper by quoting, as follows:— 
Marianopoli, die 30a Ianuarii 1908. 
Paulus Archiepiscopus, 
Domino Gulielmo Peterson, 
Rectori universitatis Macgillianae, salutem. 
Non tua te quidem fefellit sententia existimantem nemini antiquius 
esse quidquid ad latinas litteras pertineat quam mihi qui et ab oratione 
latina meam quasi a fonte repeto et eam colere non desino ut Ecclesiae 
propriam. Dum autem ea quae me totum detinet . episcopatus 
sollicitudine prohibeor quin amatis studiis vacem, quomodo tibi 
non gratuler tot irretito negotiis et Benedictinae eruditionis ac 
diligentiae haeredi! Hanc quippe modestam laudem non respuet 
qui Cluniacenses divitias, ne loquar de Vaticanis, suas fecit et mire 
quam expolivit. Eximiam namque eximii libri revolventi praefationem 
succurrebat ultro quod de grammatica dixit Augustinus: “unum 
nomen, sed res infinita, multiplex, curarum plenior, addit sanctus 
doctor, quam iucunditatis,” tuae dico equidem, non aliorum, non 
nostre. Laborum enim spe quibus desudasti ipsum illimem fontem 
ad nos usque perducis. Nec quisquam melius de re litteraria meretur 
quam qui preclarissima humani ingenii opera purgatis mendis veluti 
discussis nebulis primae reddit integritati. 
Gratias itaque magnas ago pro honore quo me, non te, affectisti, 
mittendo libro qui inter lectissimos mihi reponetur; et tibi beneficii 
perpetuo memor omnia fausta, prospera, adprecari perget amicissimus 
homo  fidelissime. 
fPAULUS BRUCHESI 
archiepiscopus Marianopolitanus. 
