( xc ) 



upper curve of the final c has swept round, and, as the letters are much 

 dulled, the most careful copyist would be as likely to read 'Mo " 

 as ''tic." 



IS'o. 5 : — (37 b 42) nee2«stos/(9r necmuis. 

 "What is here implied is, that the transcriber has confounded the 

 ordinary siglum for us with the first stroke of an m underwritten 

 with a vocalic siglum which the critic reads u. The copy, however, 

 Bubstantially represents the original, which is very obscure, and the 

 critic appears to us, from the simple palteographical poiut of view, 

 not to be right in his reading, for the MS. elsewhere is very uni- 

 form iu its ^m's, which have invariably three straight limbs ; but 

 here, what would be the middle stroke of the m is distiuctly curved 

 to the right, producing a letter closely approximating to a t. Further, 

 the thii'd stroke of the supposed m also curves to the right, making, 

 with the alleged i stroke following, an enclosure which bears consider- 

 able resemblance to an o. 



K'o. 6 :— (503 1) -bod /or -bad. 



The transcriber has erred in not giving the peculiar form of the 

 vowel in question, which vowel, but for a slight curve at the base of 

 the right arm of the letter, is an ordinary o. The Committee do not 

 pronounce, however, whether it is a or o that is intended in the 

 mauuscript. 



K^o. 7 :— (51« 33) -fuitis/or -faitis. 



The character here may be either li, or a\ but it is more probably m, 

 as the transcriber gives it, for there is a distinct dash near to the 

 upper end of the fii'st stroke of the letter. 



^Q, 8 :— (51 5 19, not " 17 ") molbthuch/or molbthach. 

 Here also, the character could be read either a or u. 



No. 9 :— (523 10, not " 11 ") brio /or brie. 

 The case is the same as in N'o. 4, viz., an asserted confusion of c 

 and 0. The word occurs at the end of the line, and the letters are 

 dulled, but the final has more the appearance of an o than a c, for the 

 right bend is nearly continuous. 



