the Greek Text of the Mathematical Collections (^' Pappus^ 221 
Verona. There is an account of it in Scip. Maffei Verona ii- 
lustrata. He describes it as “ Le collezioni di Pappo Alessan- 
drino con le figure, nel fine si dicon’ otto libro, ma i primi due 
mancano anche nel MS. Pu du Francesco Barocci nobil Ve- 
neto, e mathematico insigne, e fu da lui corretto tutto e accre- 
sciuto de varie lezioni ne margini, onde pare, che volesse publi- 
car quest’ autore^ benche tralasciasse poi prevenutto forse del 
Commandino. Questo e forse Tunico codice, che in Italia ri- 
manga dell’ esimia racolta del Barocci qual da Venezia passo ad 
arrichir & Inghilterra.” This last sentence is very curious, when 
connected with the actual fate of the book ; and it is still more 
remarkable, that a large portion of the Greek MSS. from the 
Saibante collection, was purchased in 1820 by the University of 
Oxford, which was before in possession of so many of the Codices 
Barociani. The Abbe Celote, however, had previously sold this to 
Dr Burney, who esteemed it so highly, that when he had it new 
bound (for it is now in modern blue Turkey,) he had the words 
‘‘ codex praetiosissimus” impressed on the back of it. There are a 
number of blank leaves bound up at the beginning and end of* 
the volume. On the first leaf of it, there is a Greek inscription, 
in d different hand from any writing in the body of the work ; 
it begins with a quotation from S. Jerom, and seems to have no- 
thing to dp with Pappus. The water-mark on the blank leaves 
is the same as that of the paper on which the latter part of the 
8th book is written ; but the old paging is still very visible^ 
which begins with the first page of the text of Pappus. 
This manuscript, with the rest of the valuable library, which 
was purchased from the family of Dr Burney, is now in the Bri- 
tish Museum. It either was originally wriUen by several tran- 
scribers, or, which seems from some circumstances more proba- 
ble, is made up of three fragments collected from different quar- 
ters. Pages ^9,-48. (of the recent paging) contain the latter 
part of the second book, beginning with the same words as Sav. 
No. 9. This part appears to me to have been written by the 
same hand as the Sav. No. 3., and is exactly what is wanted in 
that manuscript. It is fair to add, that I pointed out this cir- 
cumstance to a friend, who is much more familiar with manu- 
scripts than I am, and who, while he admitted tho similaritv, 
was not convinced of the identity of the handwriting : but to me 
