ihe Greek Text (^‘tlie Mathematical Collections of Pappus. 
while Maffei says, si dicon otto libri, ma i primi duo mancuno,^’ 
and that both should be inaccurate ; but this only adds to the 
many instances which we constantly meet with, of the haste with 
which the accounts of books are drawn up. In the same manner, 
the Greek manuscript. No. S368. of the French Kings" library, is 
said in the large catalogue to contain the eight books of Pappus ; 
and it is added, Primi initium desideratur,” when, in fact, the 
whole of the first, and the beginning of the second, are wanting ; 
the first words being uvrm iXc6(r<rovotg, as in the Savil. No. 9. 
Baroci seems to have studied our author with particular at- 
tention. Among the Latin MSS. of the Paris library, No. 
contains a translation of Pappus, cum commentariis Francisci 
Barocii, prsemittitur opusculum Italico idiomate scriptum, cujus 
is est titulus : Imperfettioni digli libri di Pappo, tradotto e com- 
mentati dal Gommandino, Is codex decimo sexto sasculo exa- 
ratus videtur.” Whether the prefatory dissertation is written by 
Baroci, or not, cannot be collected with certainty from this de- 
scription ; but the language in which it is written, and the age 
of the manuscript, are both in favour of his being the author ; 
and its connection with the Saibante MS. makes it particularly 
curious. With this (the Saibante) great pains have been taken. 
It is corrected throughout ; and there are a great many remarks 
and emendations written in the margins. 
This manuscript contains, in common with those at Oxford^ 
the passages pointed out by Dr Trail as wanting in Comman- 
dine’s translation, at the end of the third and fourth books. 
They all, likewise, contain a lemma at the end of the seventh 
book, which is omitted in the translation. In fact, there is a re- 
markable similaiity in the original text of Dr Burney’s MS. with 
that of No. 3. of the Savilian library. Dr Burney’s has the ad- 
vantage of the text being, in some instances, complete, where 
there are lacunae in the other; but the same false readings are 
generally found exactly in the same places ; the same corrections 
are repeatedly inserted with is-aa in the margins ; and they both, 
as Dr Trail remarks of the Edinburgh MS., have the initial red 
letters sometimes inserted in the middle of a proposition. There 
are no diagrams inserted in the text of either, excepting for the 
eighth book ; and, although these do not exactly agree, any more 
than the figures at the end of the tw^o manuscripts, yet there is 
