SIGLA 



S = Cod. Sangermanensis Petropolitanus 207 (9th 



cent.). 

 A = Cod. Ambrosianus L 85 sup. (9th-10th cents.) 

 jR =: all or consensus of the 15th cent. MSS. 

 a = Cod. Laurentianus plut. 53. 32 (15th cent.). 

 c = Cod. Caesenas Malatestianus plut. 24. 2 (15th 



cent.). 

 ed. pr. = editio princeps (Jensoniana), Venice, 1472. 

 Aid. — the first Aldine edition, Venice, 1514. 

 Gesfi. = J. M. Gesner, Scriptores Ret Rusticae Veteres 



Latini, Leipzig, 1735. 

 Schneider = J. G. Schneider, Scriptores Rei Rusticae 



Veteres Latini, Leipzig, 1794. 

 LundstrQm = V. Lundstrom, L. lun. Mod. Columella 



Lib. I-II, VI-VII, X-XI, de Arboribus, 



Upsala-Goteborg, 1897-1940. 



Note. — In Books VI and VII, where the apparatus 

 criticus is based on Lundstrom's recension, his 

 siglum R is used as representing the reading of all 

 or the majority of the twenty-five 15th-century 

 MSS. collated by him. In Books V and VIII a new 

 collation has been made of only the two best 15th- 

 century MSS., for which the sigla a and c are used. 



