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414 Prof, Everett^s account of Greek Manuscripts. 



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by the Turks. In 1660^ the entire work in Greek, with the version 

 of Leunclaviiis, the whole revised and corrected from several man- 

 uscripts, was published by Labbe, and from this edition it was 

 incorpbratcd into the collection of the Byzantine historians. It 

 constitutes the ninth volume of that collection, in the Venetian 

 edition. It has been long since observed that the text of Labbe's 

 edition of Glycas is both incorrect and incomplete ; and the present 

 manuscript, as far I have had opportunity to collate it, furnishes 

 the means of many emendations in the received text of this author. 

 The appearance of the manuscript would seem alone to prove, 

 that the author of the work must have lived at an earlier age than 

 that which some of the learned have ascribed to him. It has all 

 the characteristics of a manuscript of the twelfth or thirteenth 

 century. 



To this brief account of Greek manuscripts, I beg leave to add 

 a notice of a manuscript of a Latin translation of the politics, rhet- 

 oric, and larger morals of Aristotle, which I procured at Fl 

 and which is now deposited in the College library. It is well 

 written, in black letter, on parchment, but of no very great anti- 

 quity. It belonged originally to Petrus Victoiius, an editor and 

 commentator of Aristotle, and afterwards to the convent of Santa 

 Maria Novella, at Florence. The following note on the title 

 page will show that it is not without value : — " Hie est liber ille 



broruni A 



cujus ssepe 



fecit Petrus Victorius ; prsecipue autem in Epistola ad 



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suos in tres llbros Aris 



totelis de arte dicendi, afllrmat hujus auxilio se usum fuisse, in 

 corrigendis libris illis temporum ac librariorum injuria deformatis. 

 Cum enira hsec translatio, mtiltis antea seculls confecta fiierit, 



quo tempore llbri Aristotelis intcgriores emendatioresque erant, 



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