INTRODUCTION 



The Manuscripts ov these Books 

 (Chiefly from Mayhoff) 



N Nonantulanus (Sessorianus) 5th or 6th century, 

 a palimpsest, now in Rome, once in a 

 Benedictine Monastery at Nonantula, near 

 Modena. 



Later Manuscripts 

 Ist fa^nily 



V Leidensis Vossianus, llth century or earlier. 

 R codex Florentinus Riccardianus, about 1100 



A.D. 



d codex Parisinus latinus, 6797, 13th century. 

 F codex Leidensis, llth century. 

 T codex Toletanus, 13th century. 

 X the better parts of X, ex exemplari prioris 

 familiae (MayhofF). 



2ndfamily 



E codex Parisinus latinus 6795, lOth or llth 



century. 

 r coiTCctions from an unknown MS. noted in R. 

 a codex Vindobonensis CCXXXIV. 

 X codex Luxemburgensis, the parts not included 



in X. 



Codd." in the apparatus criticus is usually the same 

 as Mayhoffs //., i.e., a consensus of VR(r)dE, some- 



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