Purser—On a London MS. of Cicero’s Letters. O73. 
from these, what Gruter calls the schedae of Melchior Hittorp., were 
taken. These fragments are very accurately written, and superior to 
the copy of Erf., e.g. the words omitted in Erf. at 847. 25, 26, mittit 
etiam ... mittitur; 365. 10-12, dies ille ... contio are found inserted 
in H. It has, however, often been altered by a second hand to the 
reading of Erf. 
The De Officiis, Book I. and Book II., down to § 34, intellegentiae 
(698. 12), are accurately enough copied; but it is hard to say to what 
family they are to be referred. There area very great number of agree- 
ments with Erf.; but the variants, though few, are of such a character® 
that one cannot be quite certain that the two mss. are from the same 
archetype. There is a curious transposition in H. It goes straight on 
to 649. 17, commutatur, an@ then, though on the same page, continues 
at 662. 33, periculosa et callida, down to 683. 27, gradatim; after 
which follows the previously omitted portion (649. 17-662. 33), after 
the completion of which it continues 683. 27 to the end. No such 
transposition appears in Erf., which only goes down to 672. 20, sive 
bonitate naturae sive. 
The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle is that sometimes printed at 
the end of the editions of Quintus Curtius, entitled Alexandri Magni 
Epistola de situ Indiae et itinerum in ea uastitate ad Aristotelem prae- 
ceptorem suum in Latinitatem uersa a Cornelio Nepote. In H the 
only heading is Incipit Epistola Magni Alexandri Macedonis ad Aris- 
totilem magistrum suum. I believe there is a critical edition of this 
epistle by Kluge, but I have not seen it. 
The text in H of Julius Valerius’s translation of the Romance of 
Pseudo-Callisthenes on Alexander the Great is singularly accurate. It 
is in close accord with the Wolfenbiittel ws., which Zacher® calls E, and 
values so highly, but at times preserves a more correct reading, and 
hardly ever disagrees with E. when the latter is right. I doubt if 
there exists a more accurate copy than the one in H. Julius Valerius 
is often found in mss. along with the Epistola Alexandri. (See Zacher’s 
Preface ; also Teuffel, Rom. Lit., 388. 11.) 
We have thus found a considerable number of the treatises in the 
Harleian volume connected with the Hittorpianus, Erfurdt, or some 
one of Graevius’s mss. This is to be remembered when we attempt 
further on to show a close connexion between the copies of the Zpp. 
ad Fam. in H and in the Hittorp.—a ms. of the Epistles which, 
together with the Palatinus Sextus, we are told’ is derived from the 
same archetype as the Erfurdt. But let us now say a few words 
about the copy of the Epistolae ad Familiares as given by H. 
5 642. 7, quoad te (quousque Erf.); 653. 8, temperans (intemperans Z7/.) ; 
645. 5, gerendem (agendam Hrf.); 670.5, mancia (manciatu Z7f.). 
6 Julii Valerii Epitome, zum erstenmal herausgegeben von Julius Zacher: Halle, 
1867. 
7 Krfurtensis autem, et Palatinus sextus et Hittorpianus, quos ex eodem cum 
Erfurtense fonte fluxisse iudico, &c. (Wunder, ‘‘ Variae Lectiones,’’ p. xciv.). 
