INTRODUCTION 



II. The Text 



The best ms. of Colluthus is — 



M = codex Mutinensis, now Parisinus suppl. graec. 

 388. Hall, Companion to Classical Texts, p. 278, 

 says it " was never at Modena but was brought by 

 the French in the Napoleonic wars at the beginning 

 of the 19th century from somewhere in North 

 Italy." 



It is dated Xth or Xlth century. 



This MS. was first used by I. Bekker in his edition 

 of Colluthus, impensis G. Reimeri, Berlin I8I6. 



The only critical edition before that of Bekker 

 was that of John Daniel van Lennep, Leovardiae 

 1747, which was founded on collations (given him by 

 D'Orville, Rulinken, Valckenaer) of six mss. 



V = Vossianus, a collation of which is in the 

 library at Leyden ; probably to be identified with 

 Palatinus 319."^ 



P = Parisinus 276-t. 



Q = Parisinus 26OO. 



A = Ambrosianus Q 5 sup. 



L = Laurentianus xxxL 27. 



R = Hauniensis 60 (once belonging to Elias Putsch, 

 then to J. A. Fabricius, then to H. S. Reimar). 



All these are probably derived from Bessarion's ms. 



Other late mss. are : 



Neapolitanus ii. F 17. 



Paris, suppl. 109. 



Marcianus viiii. 1. 



537 



