SSO Prof. Rigaud on those AISS. in G. Britain^ which contain 
“ At the end of the 4th book, is a very imperfect sketch of 
a proposition not in Commandine. 
In this MS. are many corrections on the margin, and some 
even in the text, by a later hand ; and among them are a great 
number of the emendations proposed by Commandine, of the 
very same errors in the MS. used by him, from which a connec- 
tion between these two MSS. may be inferred. Many of these 
emendations are servilely copied, retaining even the mistakes in- 
to which Commandine, in a few of them, had fallen. 
This MS., though elegantly written, has been copied by a 
person totally ignorant of the subject, of which the number of 
gross errors in its first state is a sufficient proof. It may be re- 
marked, also, that at the beginning of a proposition, or of a pa- 
ragraph, there is usually a red letter and a new line ; but fre- 
quently also this distinction is made in the middle of a sentence, 
while the beginning of propositions and subjects in other places, 
is not distinguished in that or in any other manner. The enu- 
meration of the propositions is often irregular ; and many of the 
diagrams, though neatly drawn, are altogether erroneous. The 
MS. was sold at Dr Mooi^’s death, and was afterwards purchased 
for the Library of the Faculty of Advocates at Fdinburgh. 
“ This MS. not having the 7th book. Dr Moor procured a 
copy of it to be taken from the MS. No. S368, in the Parisian 
Library. This, also, for some time, was in Dr Simson-s posses- 
sion, who in a note to Commandine’s Pappus, gives the following 
account of the transcript, which he must have got from Dr Moor. 
Hunc autem librum Pappi ex eo codice (scil. No. 2368. 
Reg. Bibl. Par.) descripsit Dom. Caperonier, lingua? Grseca? 
in Academia Parisiensi Professor; sumptibus D. Jac. Moor, 
Collegae mei doctissimi ; Schemata vero ej us depinxit D. Jos. 
Brisbane, M. D......This copy, in the dispersion of Dr Moor’s 
library, seems to have been lost.” 
A few years ago, the late Dr Charles Burney procured a ma- 
nuscript, which had been the property of the Saibante Family at 
which is ocpupied by the six last books of Pappus. He states the part which pre.. 
cedes them, to be “ fragmentum arithmetici opusculi, ab incerto auctore script! 
sine epigraphe, et ex abruplo incipiens sic ; yct^ iXcc(7(r(ivix.'i K.r.X. which evi- 
dently shews, that it is the latter end of the 2d book of Pappus, although he was 
pot aware of it. 
